Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
I think Amy is a really difficult example. With any artist, none of us understands what it's like having the world's media… — Nicki Chapman Copy Share Image
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
What happens to a lot of artists in the music industry right now is the following: The music industry is plummeting real… — RZA Copy Share Image
Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
Art and society was a lot more subject to sexism 50 years ago than it is now. Since that period, there have… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
Everything I've done hasn't worked out - you know, some things aren't as great as others - but I'm having so much… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
When it comes to films, so much is in the hands of bottom-line guys. There's a lot of fear involved there, and… — David Nutter Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground” Indie Record Stores that avid… — Dale Watson Copy Share Image
We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness. — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a gay or a straight artist. I don't make gay records - I make records. — Darren Hayes Copy Share Image
Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs,… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
