It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
When you place art in the shops, it's a way to make it more accessible. — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your… — Jill Eikenberry Copy Share Image
I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We will never solve the problems of cities unless we like the urban-ness of urban life. Cities aren't villages; they aren't machines;… — Elizabeth Wilson Copy Share Image
Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Don't try to buy art as an investment. Buy something you really love because you're going to have to look at it… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs.… — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin? — Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face. — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me. — Kelly Rowland Copy Share Image