Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The most distinctive quality of artmaking is the investment of the artist’s own humanity in the finished piece.” — Ted Orland Copy Share Image
Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
A lot of new artists, especially girl artists, feel pressure to be so 'media perfect' and 'trained.' I'm intelligent, but I don't… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet.… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Is it better to strive for success as a self-representing artist or try to get your feet wet in the gallery world?… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
I walked into Relativity Records as a musician who could not be taken advantage of. That's why I wound up owning all… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Artists have their very distinctive voices that theyve developed over a long period. It takes time to find your voice, your vocabulary… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do. — Gianni Versace Copy Share Image
In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move. — David Belle Copy Share Image
The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
Instruments are expensive, aren't they? But it's your art though. It's a lot of money but it's your instrument - imagine buying… — NAO Copy Share Image
“Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I pay a lot of attention to composition in my art, and I will often shift myself or change a pose according… — Sasha Pivovarova Copy Share Image
Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“Although I am capable, through long dabbling in blue magic, of imitating any prose in the world (but singularly enough not verse—I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
All directors have their strengths and weaknesses, as all actors have, and all artists. What you try to do is complete the… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
