In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school. — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am… — John Ford Copy Share Image
“You'd think someone who could see the beauty in nature and capture it on canvas could see mold on the shower tile.” — Beverley Andi Copy Share Image
“For Art alone is great: The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.” — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I'm aware that creative art is my form of ministry, my form of activism, my gifts, and with that comes great responsibility. — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and… — Rex Smith Copy Share Image
Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings,… — Anthony Caro Copy Share Image
Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream -- of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete -- lives the… — Glenn Kurtz Copy Share Image
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my mom once told me that God was an artist and how on occasion He’d throw a… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists. — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
My wife is the expert, but I like art particularly. I like Van Gogh. — Claudio Ranieri Copy Share Image
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image