“What is art? Art is tar, rearranged. Art is tar on canvas or tar on tarp or tar on a naked body.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
“Sulkowicz’s genius was to make her burden tangible, and in so doing make it something others could share. Solidarity has been a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I'm also developing my own narrative, because I'm the son of a widow. And so, while working with women and gathering their… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
What has started to interest me is how you use all the different disciplines and tools we have at our disposal, and… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It's important that I work with people where they know why they're hiring me and that they're looking to create art without… — Keiynan Lonsdale Copy Share Image
“White contains a balance of all colors in the spectrum, representing both the positive and negative aspects of all colors. Given it’s… — Chantal Larocque Copy Share Image
I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of… — Angela Cartwright Copy Share Image
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When you do hard routes, you have to try hard. They're not easy routes. You have to give everything you have. You… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
I think the whole response to our art being so positive is that it rings true and it feels a unique thing… — Finneas Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do;… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
“To me, there's nothing quite like a beautiful night sky to put everything into perspective and focus. It clears the mind. It's… — Dave Webb Copy Share Image
This is New York. You gotta work from upstairs to downstairs! You gotta work both ends of the street to have a… — Keith Sonnier Copy Share Image
Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Not everyone is fortunate enough to earn their living playing. But what draws people to art and artists is a desire to… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality.… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
When I came to Mumbai, I was working behind the scenes for 10 long years. Back then, music video budgets were insignificant… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I imagine a future where many of us will call ourselves dancers and collaborate to make an art which concerns itself with… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
In the pop world, instead of saying I want to get an album by such and such a group, it's I like… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it,… — T.I Copy Share Image
“One reason that people have artist’s block is that they do not respect the law of dormancy in nature. Trees don’t produce… — Marshall Vandruff Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ...… — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
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