All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Aside from that i’m an introvert and i’m a quiet person. The benefit of that is I listen. It’s not like my… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
“Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center… — Spider Webb Copy Share Image
Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I think that video content is really important for artists these days. Not necessarily for MTV, but to really just get your… — Matthew Mayfield Copy Share Image
A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
I was a guest at CalArts. John Baldessari invited me out a few times. I've been there. I've been in Pasadena, taught… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Juanes is one of the legendary, iconic Colombian artists. Growing up in Colombia, you can't really not have him on your radar.… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
There is some pressure when you are a woman doing what I do that you must support all other women unconditionally, no… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I had to learn, because as an artist myself, an artist owns that right to protect their interest of how they want… — Bryce Wilson Copy Share Image
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I tried everything. I moved a thousand miles away from home to Chicago and a new environment. I studied art; I desperately… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Genuine art . . . does not have as its object a mere transitory game. Its serious purpose is not merely to… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society.… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others,… — Carlos Gracie, Jr Copy Share Image
The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.'… — Bill Paxton Copy Share Image
“If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take his work unto itself. But… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
“The impact hit her like a physical blow. He was..."Beautiful." Eyes of such pure undiluted blue it was as if some heavenly… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so… — Austin Butler Copy Share Image
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look, Matisse I ain't. You know how they have on the invitations, a reception for the artist will be held at... And… — Phil Stern Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Irony and cynicism were just what the U.S. hypocrisy of the fifties and sixties called for. That’s what made the early postmodernists… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
I don't, really a fashionable person. I'm an actor, so I like costumes. But fashion is very popular now. Really overly popular.… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them… — David Hume Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I have studied the art of the ancients and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge… — Dave Liebman Copy Share Image
![“I was a guest at CalArts. John Baldessari invited me out a few times. I've been there. I've been in Pasadena, taught out at Boulder, University of Colorado. And I've taught in Europe. I've lectured and taught. I've taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nigne [sp]. I was there for a couple of…” quote by Robert Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09e/robert-barry-3413_art_i-was-a-guest-at-calarts-john-baldessari_555918.jpg)
