Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall. — Questlove Copy Share Image
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“the beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentlest way,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Every person is a unique and autonomous person and actually, considered independently, the greatest artwork of all time...” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“bebop at its core: It wasn’t just art for art’s sake but art that could show contempt for its audience.” — Peter Pullman Copy Share Image
We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter,… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
“It is easy to love a woman, it is in nature, but art to love a man, and a profound art to… — David Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do. — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
There is a rumour that I can't draw and never could. This is probably because I work so much with models. Models… — Jørn Utzon Copy Share Image
All of the good things that surround art - you have to embrace the idea that it could be a complete disaster.… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond… — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say,… — John Glover Copy Share Image
I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
As artists, we have to change our style to match each concept. We're always changing, ever changing. — Kim Tae-hyung Copy Share Image
The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.” — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate… — Chloe Pirrie Copy Share Image
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist. — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
“One must possess many gifts … which have not been acquired by one’s own effort. And, moreover … the artist must possess… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
“Cath didn’t feel like a mistake to him. She felt like a beginning. A clean canvas, ready to be painted. A gorgeous… — Ruthie Knox Copy Share Image
You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
