The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke. — Danny Brown Copy Share Image
As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction. — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger. — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand. — David Alfaro Siqueiros Copy Share Image
I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both. — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
“All credit to the men who invented paint and canvas, but there’s more credit, eh? to the Raphaels and Holbeins who used… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so… — Dale Chihuly Copy Share Image
Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior -… — Pieter Hugo Copy Share Image
I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I… — Kristen Wiig Copy Share Image
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
