Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making. — Stephen Metcalf Copy Share Image
“You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion. — John Roecker Copy Share Image
When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
“All we can do is put our heart and work into the world. It’s our art. It’s our purpose.” — Dave Crumby Copy Share Image
I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs. — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and… — James Jordan Copy Share Image
“Artistic careers seem to attract a disproportionately high ratio of people with dysfunctional backgrounds, odd upbringings, multiple hang-ups, and exotic emotional deficiencies.… — Graeme Thomson Copy Share Image
Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a… — Molly Peacock Copy Share Image
Record stores are the hippest libraries. In these tired ole days of homogenized entertainment, where so much of the art of our… — Elizabeth Cook Copy Share Image
Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“How can she who had torn his heart open at the waterworks with her art lie now like a human in his… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs… — Karl Wolf Copy Share Image
My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
