You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone. — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
I stick to my guns - that's what keeps me going as an artist. Stevie Wonder never changed from what he wanted… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Art, when inspired with love, leads to higher realms. Love art and that art will open for you the inner life. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist” — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
What I've learned and all of us have learned is: You can't force art, and there's no way you could force somebody… — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation. I've got friends who are surfers,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When we auditioned for 'The X Factor,' we were five individuals going into the show. That obviously means we are five solo… — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“It was just that i had the feeling that the art scene belonged to the men, and that I was in some… — Jan Greenberg Copy Share Image
There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment,… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
