Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
I've benefited enormously from an arts education and a music education in New York. When they cut the programs for funding, I… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age… sympathy as a fine… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred… — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard,… — Liz Prince Copy Share Image
It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist! — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
From Uber and Lyft drivers to financial advisors to local artists, we should support workers' freedom and our gig economy. — Young Kim Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest limitations for an artist is not being able to dream a golden dream. We're always saying,… — Dana Tai Soon Burgess Copy Share Image
If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an… — Earle Birney 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
The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I really don't believe in being 'gifted.' I really think what you put in is what you get. People say, 'Oh, this… — Beneil Dariush Copy Share Image
“That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience. — Josh Keaton Copy Share Image
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist! — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs. — Vince Aletti Copy Share Image
I tick so many boxes. Thats why I get a lot of gigs - because I can do the lectures, I can… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work. — Charles E. Burchfield Copy Share Image
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
I'm so proud of each and every student who shared their artistic talents with us as part of the 2021 Congressional Art Competition. — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
“Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature’s ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
“This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and deprivation make… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.” — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform… — Saul Steinberg Copy Share Image
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be an artist early on, but I decided to seriously pursue the profession when I auditioned for… — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
