A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have… — Max Kellerman Copy Share Image
I was shooting lots of large format portraits then but I've since changed to digital, where you have so much more control.… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if… — Ronny Cox Copy Share Image
My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“I was a masterpiece; a painting in itself. He was changing me, molding me, and making me into something brand new. I… — Evelyn Deshane Copy Share Image
Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and… — William Henry Jackson Copy Share Image
I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and… — Mickalene Thomas Copy Share Image
One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I'm happy that the evolution of art in the past 25 years, and the place of art in global culture-and even finance-has… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
