If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one. — William Penn Copy Share Image
My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist. — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins. — John Cage Copy Share Image
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you… — Warren Adler Copy Share Image
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I feel like, to have a career as an artist, you don't need to meet the same criteria as you do to… — Judith Hill Copy Share Image
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
You go and you see a piece of art; you're looking at it outside of you. When you listen to a song,… — Fab Moretti Copy Share Image
“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along;… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“This could be your big ticket,” he said. “You know what happens to you at art school?” I shook my head. “All… — Steve Hamilton Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts'… — Benjamin Walker Copy Share Image
Even after seeing so much bad art in the last few years, it still seems possible that one can be led to… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Like the people that in the 60s or 70s claimed the "end of painting" - all they did was open up a… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“Whatever you do in life, you can always do it in an artistic way!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
There are some artists that love that limelight. I don't do it for that. — Keyshia Cole Copy Share Image
I think it's really important for real artists to make sure they're honest. — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image