What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to… — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money… — Phil Daniels Copy Share Image
I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is… — Banks Copy Share Image
Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Art is supposed to change and grow and accord with the times. It seems perfect to me that we have a period… — Claudia Jessie Copy Share Image
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“If you stand before a canvas, up close, almost to the point where your nose touches paint, you will see nothing but… — Pen Copy Share Image
Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create… — August Wilson Copy Share Image