I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
If you were a painter and a rock and roll musician and weren't established in either - to be an artist today… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
I have worked with artists who are super-young and new and experiencing success, and I feel bad because I can see it… — LP Copy Share Image
At its core, kitsch feels like something less than art; it panders to the middle and is flagrantly anti-art, though it often… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Every makeup artist has a straw somewhere on them, pretty much at all times. They're pros, and it's a lot easier to… — Kendall Jenner Copy Share Image
'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist.… — Christo Copy Share Image
“The obsession with correct political belief and expression in art is stultifying the genre as it is necessarily exclusive. We are losing… — Scott M. Roberts Copy Share Image
Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee are my masters; they're the inspiration for my work. Bruce Lee was a heavy fighter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two… — K'naan Copy Share Image
Music was my life...It was everything to me, even though I was in school majoring in English. I was still very focused… — John Legend Copy Share Image
If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries… — Malvina Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...the art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I'm working with a mixed martial artist a couple of hours every day, doing stretching and kickboxing, getting into gymnastics and learning… — Chace Crawford Copy Share Image
Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
If you want to be a songwriter and place a song with a popular artist, then it's ok to follow the trends.… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically ,… — Gerardo Suter Copy Share Image
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“A face like yours makes men stumble over themselves.” He tilted his head to look at me through a new angle. “Faces… — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
“The human erotic imagination is a vast wilderness of sexual possibilities. We are each capable of enjoying a pleasurable, satisfying and potentially… — Chris Maxwell Rose Copy Share Image
I'm going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way,… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end.… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“The world, moment by ordinary or agonizing moment, lies chock-full with its own clarifications and rewards. That such rewards most often go… — Robert Wrigley Copy Share Image
Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I don't sell anything. So, I have a personal image, but I think that's because I'm from an art background, and I'm… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a… — Jack White Copy Share Image
