I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro. — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one once we grow up. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter. — Petrarch Copy Share Image
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
It’s about a singer who first sneered about my allegedly not authentic style but later she stole and copied it. And now… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus… — LIZ Copy Share Image
You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up… — Ariana Grande Copy Share Image
I think a problem for most people in a fiduciary capacity is to eliminate self and greed and all those things so… — Shep Gordon Copy Share Image
Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“An artist does not create the way he lives, he lives the way he creates.” — Jean Lescure Copy Share Image
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it. — Bono Copy Share Image
I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and… — Shirley Eaton Copy Share Image
I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description. — Winslow Homer Copy Share Image
The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. — Childe Hassam Copy Share Image
the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle. — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures. — Martin Kippenberger Copy Share Image
The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed. — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
There's a kind of passionate expression in all my pieces. It's just that the nature of the expression takes different forms. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
“Sir Joshua Reynolds, said Jonathan, "once alluded to 'common observation and a plain understanding' as the source of all art.” — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“To visit a museum is fine, to be a museum piece is terrible! - Gioconda and Si-Ya-U ” — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils. — Chris Zylka Copy Share Image
