Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result,… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“The gaze of others is quite without indulgence for our defects and that of Mantegna is pitiless. I am grateful to him.… — Marie Ferranti Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it.… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both… — Brad Delson Copy Share Image
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“A famous artist is approached by a student. "You don't remember me," the student says correctly, "but years ago you said something… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers… — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Being DIY is awesome because you have total control, I never really wanted to get signed. I'm successful because I make art… — MC Lars Copy Share Image
The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art.… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we've ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
An artist's initial broad stroke is always most impactful, and obsessively adding layer upon layer of paint to fill in details often… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I am grateful to organizations like the International Child Art Foundation that gives us the opportunity to see the world through the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I think time has changed a lot and you need to be presentable all the time. Social media has become really important… — Asrani Copy Share Image
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“It feels better to speak in metaphor, easier. It’s saying the truth without actually saying the truth. You could only speak to… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“both you and paintings are layered… first, ephemera and notations on the back of the canvas. Labels indicate gallery shows, museum shows,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point… — Adam Fuss Copy Share Image
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Joseph Gotto, yeah. Just all-around one of the more inspiring artists - not because of any sort of specific content direction, but… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self.… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
