How can you worry about pleasing people [critics] and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the… — Elliot Easton Copy Share Image
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
I think art is the imperfectly perfect or perfectly imperfect way of self-expression. — Justin Tucker Copy Share Image
I don't really follow that many celebrities on social media. I mainly follow artists. As someone who loves to draw and make… — Joe Sugg Copy Share Image
I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged. — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
To love without condition, to talk without intention, to give without reason and to care without expectation. This is the art of… — UD Oh Copy Share Image
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.” — William Everson Copy Share Image
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it’s going to do it visually or… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age… — Julia Robinson Copy Share Image
“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic” — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. — John Gay Copy Share Image
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
“Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There are few aspects of my family not imbued with Jewishness; it is braided through every memory, part of nearly every conversation… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female)… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the… — El Greco Copy Share Image
I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a… — Suzanne Lee Copy Share Image
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