Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify. — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
She's an artist, her wrist is her canvas and her blade is her paint brush — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life. — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I… — Andrea Suarez Paz Copy Share Image
People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As nice as some of the booths are, it's not the same thing. It's a pity for young artists, because one of… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
I'll always work with Stones Throw, but I'm trying to start my own label to release my old material and sign new… — Madlib Copy Share Image
Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong. — Fetty Wap Copy Share Image
One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Being an artist means being unapologetically yourself, and I get to be that now. — Raye Copy Share Image
No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse” — Volkmar Essers Copy Share Image
