Theres a blank canvas in front of you. You are the artist of your life, and you are free to paint any… — Nishu Copy Share Image
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
One of the artists I most admire is David Lee Roth. I think his combination of humor, glamour, sex and energy is… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist. — Aubrey O'Day Copy Share Image
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. — William McElcheran Copy Share Image
I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform. — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century… — Robert Nelson Copy Share Image
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!'… — Richard Artschwager Copy Share Image
“All you ought to be worrying about now is order (not about how to impose it on chaos, wish is the opposite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You're my escort?" Devon shrugged. "The Big Guy tells you to do something, you do it, even if it means babysitting a… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
People like to put music and art up against the dehumanizing character of commerce and business corporations. — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
Im a maximalist, so Im probably not very elegant. My art is not a coup de grce. Its a war of attrition. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio. — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
“I want to learn martial arts, so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it” — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Short-sighted music fans might scoff at the revivalism of, say, Ariel Pink, but plenty of acts have built healthy careers around the… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
I attended the Women's March on Washington with a group of artists, curators, and art-world professionals. — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. — Bernie Brillstein Copy Share Image
Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
I hated art as a kid. I didn't even like art class. I didn't like to draw. I would make my dad… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
I love paying people to touch me. Nail techs, hair stylists, dermatologists, make-up artists, osteopaths: you name it, I love it. — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays… — Jason Priestley Copy Share Image
“How I adored to draw as a child, a teen; all my life before I began to try and shape a career… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes. — Lee Ann Womack Copy Share Image
Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
“Even a nation brainwashed to equate artsiness with art knows when its eyelids are drooping.” — B.R. Myers Copy Share Image
