So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you. — Multatuli Copy Share Image
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes. — Jean Tinguely Copy Share Image
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song. — Zedd Copy Share Image
One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting,… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for… — William Blake Copy Share Image
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of… — Plato Copy Share Image
In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“It’s not enough to be the best. You also have to be seen by the most. A masterpiece painting hanging in the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art. — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome. — Teller Copy Share Image
In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things. — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist. — Charles R. Jackson Copy Share Image
The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way. — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“A wall was slowly being constructed between art and science, a wall that still stands today.” — Laura J. Snyder Copy Share Image
Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Stealing Chanel' was very different for me as an artist. I had to embrace and expose my vulnerabilities, instead of manifesting a… — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
As far as I know, no money ever won in a lawsuit by IFPI or the RIAA has even gone to any… — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick? — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
“My work is the art I paint on the canvas of my life. Hopefully I'm creating a masterpiece.” — L.R.W. Lee Copy Share Image
“The best works around us, whether they are poetry, music, or artwork, come from the heart.” — Ashley Wiger Copy Share Image
“To do what we should in art is bondage. To tell others, with our art, what they should think or feel or… — David duChemin Copy Share Image
An artist is someone who paints and is creative, but they are not necessarily using their brains too much. And it's the… — Keeley Hazell Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one. — Hedda Sterne Copy Share Image
Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
