If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“When I first discovered the world of paper flower crafts, I was immediately excited and quickly consumed with all the possibilities.” — Chantal Larocque Copy Share Image
Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“The value of an artwork is rooted in assumptions about the human performance underlying its creation” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has… — T.I Copy Share Image
I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
As Buddhists, statues are more than simply pieces of stone to us. We believe the statue of the Buddha has a kind… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The objective idea is all I ever cared about. Most of my ideas occur in verse... To be too subjective with what… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
If I, as a human being and artist represent anything in the world, it is my Jewish people, and therefore Israel is… — Evgeny Kissin Copy Share Image
You say I'm good at drawing. Well, I am. You should see my resent pictures. — Naquitta Faith Copy Share Image
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow. — Claire Bloom Copy Share Image
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to… — Banksy Copy Share Image
To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going. — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“good art illustrates anything at all, it’s likely to be a story you didn’t even know needed telling.” — David Salle Copy Share Image
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“A car crash could be considered art, and I’d like to install one in a museum. Helmets would be sold at the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course. — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I consider it a great honour that my movie Drive inspired so many wonderful artists to come together and create one ultra-cool… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
“...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead.” — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Every human being sees something different in a painting, so I want every single person to have their own thoughts about our… — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is. — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
“There is no “right” way to make art. The only wrong is in not trying, not doing.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
