Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight.… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can… — Robert Ryan Copy Share Image
I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song… — John Waters Copy Share Image
You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden,… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I'm interested in that way we perceive things, and that was part of what I was getting into in painting - the… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
“What genuine painters do is to reveal the underlying psychological and spiritual conditions of their relationship to their world; thus in the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“If you stand before a canvas, up close, almost to the point where your nose touches paint, you will see nothing but… — Pen Copy Share Image
So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting,… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
What's going on with the Oakland Raiders? You know, I don't want to say the Raiders are bad, but you know, now,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how… — Reed Hundt Copy Share Image
The arts investigate the properties of the world by playing with materials - such as stone, paint, fabric, synthetic substances, the human… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting,… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
“I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I’m… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post… — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
“From Portrait of a Landscape I think art only exists when it's being made. It's like a flower. Once picked, it starts… — Daniel D. Watkins Copy Share Image
When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say,… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
If you didn't know what you were trying to do, [Robert von Neumann] wouldn't say a word. He would just turn and… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing,… — Mija Copy Share Image
Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it.… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
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