I don't mean to give performance art a bad name or anything; I think there are people that are legit. I think… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
People ask who I am as an artist, who I am as a person. I don't ever want to tell them who… — Kip Moore Copy Share Image
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Em reminds me of one of my friends from back home. It was just so natural. I forgot in two seconds that… — Alex da Kid Copy Share Image
Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do. — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Because for me to go fully experimental, it would turn into an artist book actually. And I'm not opposed to that. But… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't… — Tionne Watkins Copy Share Image
Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how… — Dean Mitchell Copy Share Image
I believe in perpetual art, no matter if there are not many artists like me on this earth. — Jeet Aulakh Copy Share Image
If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it? — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis -… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“But with her eyes closed, she began to whisper. “If you have someone to love, then love. If you have someone to… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“She was a gypsy, as soon as you unravelled the many layers to her wild spirit she was on her next quest… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image