“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them. — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and… — Megan Griffiths Copy Share Image
I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself. — Gogen Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
“Despite what he calls the “paradoxical ascent of social practice art in a socially bankrupt world,” and “an inversion of artistic taste”… — Gregory Sholette Copy Share Image
“All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“I'm no pessimist. I don't loathe art because I couldn't live without devoting all my time to it. I love it as… — Ingo F. Walther Copy Share Image
Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
“May my hands fall from my wrists before I kill an artist like yourself," said the man in black. "I would as… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“I once went to report on a village in Russia, a community of artists who were forced to flee the cities! I'd… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
“After all, there are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.” — Charles Chaplin Copy Share Image
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I was really a very ambitious young girl when I started studying drama and performing art. — Soni Razdan Copy Share Image
“Photographers, like few other kinds of artists I can imagine, have an insanely personal relationship with their gear.” — David duChemin Copy Share Image
We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with working with no artist from any type of demographic, but you've still got to maintain what you do… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
Music, dance, literature and the visual arts open up a rich and intensely rewarding world. It is a world that should not… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Plugins can be created to unleash your creativity and break down technical barriers between the artist and his ideas. — Joey Sturgis Copy Share Image
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form. — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us? — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I'd been suffering all of my life. I think comedians and artists, we do that. We know how to be the life… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
