In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I'm a better artist and I'm a better person because I'm wiser, and stronger and I know who's hip for me and… — Boosie Copy Share Image
“The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Because that’s what art is; that’s what it does. It breaks your heart. It moves you. If it doesn’t do that, forget… — Kate Klise Copy Share Image
And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
There's definitely something broken in the music industry clearly. Partly from downloading and partly the obstacles for discovery and listener choice and… — Doug Walters Copy Share Image
And if you were a very sophisticated con artist, what would you do to convince people that you were from the future?… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
My husband John's and my breaks are often very culture heavy. He cannot pass a museum without venturing inside, so we tend… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
“Trees, skies, valleys mountains, seen through the rain-spotted windshield, were like a distorted, stippled landscape painted by a beginner who has not… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
As artists, we do our best to create things that say something and are powerful. — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make… — David Rees Copy Share Image
Sitting at the corner, and I ddnt know what to do and so I grabbed my brush and started to draw of… — Roo Roosing Potestas Copy Share Image
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“there was also a celebrated official sculptor whose works disfigured the whole of Paris,” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings? — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I keep scraping the canvas And painting him over again But he keeps slipping away” — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image