I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked… — Doug Wilhelm Copy Share Image
“The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female)… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
I was so mad I wasn't sitting at the stadium watching it [Prince' 2007 Super Bowl performance] in person. So when Prince… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
“There is no force in the life of ancient man, the influence of which so pervades all his activities as does that… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Sabism is thematic pallet, philosophical colourism, chromatic signature and dual art, bi-chromatic scale, soft scale, poetics of attractiveness, mythologism, actual value, logism… — Lepota Cosmo Copy Share Image
The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful.… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Love weaves a million pictures, And to teach you the art, you need no teachers. You are bound to have your highs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a… — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact… — Max Pam Copy Share Image
Victoria Beckham is so nasty, Why doesn't she just go home?! Her dresses are beautiful, but I don't care what she does.… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law firms or nurses or… — Melonie Diaz Copy Share Image
I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
“Reverence for the natural environment, and experiencing the interconnectedness between all things has long guided me to create watercolor paintings of beauty… — Francene Hart Copy Share Image
I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
“Imagine members of an art appreciation society pleading in court that they ‘believe’ they need a hallucinogenic drug in order to enhance… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“It's an abominable fallacy that suffering makes for greater art. Suffering blinds, deafens, ruins, and often kills. Osip Mandelstam was a great… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
Over the years, she [my mother] always encouraged me in the arts. She actually worked at an art museum when we were… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that… — Doris Salcedo Copy Share Image
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you.… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the… — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I believe there is a moment growing up when you build your own mood board. You do a collage - you collect… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in whichis our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipicethe… — Wyndham Lewis (1882â1957 Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
In this vast universe There is but one supreme truth- That God is our friend! By that truth meaning is given To… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
![“I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from me. I like Steadman and his coattail abilities. Ralph is better at business than I am. He has always managed to get free whiskey.” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76d/hunter-s-thompson-278_ability_i-m-doing-an-introduction-for-one-of-ral_1905243.jpg)
![“I was so mad I wasn't sitting at the stadium watching it [Prince' 2007 Super Bowl performance] in person. So when Prince came back to the box where I would have been after he performed, he said to my makeup artist, "Where's Stevie?" She said, "She's sick, and she was told by our manager that she…” quote by Stevie Nicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d93/stevie-nicks-2817_art_i-was-so-mad-i-wasn-t-sitting-at-the-sta_2351984.jpg)
![“[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact that you could be this fabulous visual artist, with all this milieu of people like Diego Rivera and you could sleep with these gorgeous, amazing women, that you could live that…” quote by Max Pam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb8/max-pam-75748_amazing-woman_my-photography-teacher-gave-me-the-mexic_670029.jpg)
![“Over the years, she [my mother] always encouraged me in the arts. She actually worked at an art museum when we were kids. I took classes there. She was the one that, when we'd go to the store and I would have a pack of eight pastels, she'd say, "No, get the 24-pack." She was always encouraging me…” quote by Jeff Vespa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/684/jeff-vespa-25539_art_over-the-years-she-my-mother-always-enco_2598059.jpg)
![“Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.” quote by Doris Salcedo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0e/doris-salcedo-69112_art_political-events-are-part-of-everyday-li_2562253.jpg)
![“My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the point of collecting. It's certainly a [better] quality of life you have living with [these] works, but [I] also [value] the relationship we have with the artists.” quote by Patrick Seguin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92a/patrick-seguin-56024_art_my-business-is-retrospective-i-m-looking_247900.jpg)
