All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and… — Michele Zackheim Copy Share Image
“and honesty is the hardest part yeah honesty is the highest art and honestly i myself just started and eureka i’m less… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I want so many artists that I care about to go away and grow up, and have been amazed at how hard… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen. — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I… — Cedric Yarbrough Copy Share Image
We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female… — Richard Roeper Copy Share Image
Ever since Marcel Duchamp appropriated mass market objects and pronounced them 'readymades' and Andy Warhol elevated the Campbell's soup can and Brillo… — Debbie Millman Copy Share Image
Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture. — Alexander Stoddart Copy Share Image
I think art is the imperfectly perfect or perfectly imperfect way of self-expression. — Justin Tucker Copy Share Image
The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it. — Henry Green Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing. — Anton Ehrenzweig Copy Share Image
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