“Pictures tell the story of actual impulse in the artist—or the lack of it.” — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
When you teach her that hoe mentality, they accept that as reality. — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer. — Leland Bell Copy Share Image
As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Thought is more important than art…To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise,… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility. — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
“Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for… — Peter Stanyer Copy Share Image
Training with Billy Robinson is just like any martial artist who would go to the old master of the art. He's so… — Shayna Baszler Copy Share Image
“There was something terribly sad, yet terribly uplifting, about watching this prophet of the ancient art of distance running turning his back… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
“Yangi, a philosopher, art historian and poet, had evolved a theory of why some objects - pots, baskets, cloth made by unknown… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
I'm just used to having so much control in music and in acting you have to give that up a bit. Sure,… — Kano Copy Share Image
Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image