REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Being a kid with black skin in South Central Los Angeles, in a part of the world where opportunity didn't necessarily knock… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Some people say I do it too much, but I'm always asking the artist questions. Sometimes - especially with new artists -… — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
“Some people sought to lead. Most did not. Some people sought to star on television, or show in art museums, or become… — Steve Bein Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are… — Marcella Hazan Copy Share Image
“Tell me, I don't know much about martial arts... But what does it mean to be strong? Is it something you can… — Bisco Hatori Copy Share Image
[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes: Perhaps of my planted forest a few May stand yet,… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of… — Maggie Macnab Copy Share Image
I don't think talent has anything to do with inspiration. Inspiration creates talent. People prioritize innate talent too much. It gives them… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
I think designers are starting to realize that we're all in the same industry. We're making clothes - we aren't saving the… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
Now I'm sixty-one... sixty-two, pretty soon. It's a really interesting age. Now we have women of your age, and coming up, and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It… — Hartman Rector, Jr Copy Share Image
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Drawing creates its own kind of private space. Coupled with certain interests that I want to speak to in my art, it's… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
Being a real woman is an art mostly pleasant, but demanding some skills and knowledge. As we all know, there are no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He was not only instrumental in giving me the confidence I needed as an artist, but through the years he has given… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
“Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: ‘When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't… — Matt Letscher Copy Share Image
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of… — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
“You’re fucking special and if I want to act all possessive over you when some stupid art guy hits on you right… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
Twitter is the new rock magazine of the modern age. When I was a kid, we had magazines and journalists and interviews… — Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Children are capable, of course, of literary belief , when the story-maker's art is good enough to produce it. That state of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The real writer, the fellow who sends planets spinning and models a man asleep and eagerly tampers with the sleeper's rib, that… — Nabokov Vladimir Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing what can be done by people who learn to relax, pay attention, and focus, appreciating the present hour and all… — Steve Chandler Copy Share Image
Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Man in his upended street must know he is becoming a mere numerical item of convenience; on the way to being a… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I asked Bill what career path he thought I should take, and he replied, “Live the artist’s life.” For years I pondered… — Mallory M. O'Connor Copy Share Image
![“[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a…” quote by Chris Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a24/chris-ware-8123_art_comics-is-one-of-the-last-havens-for-hon_1013449.jpg)
