There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is. — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's… — Brynn Cartelli Copy Share Image
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system. — John Walford Copy Share Image
I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your… — Jill Eikenberry Copy Share Image
The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
“Rahel thought of the someone who had taken the trouble to go up there with cans of paint, white for the clouds,… — Arundhati Roy; God of Small Things Copy Share Image
When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson did something that no one else in history has managed - he connected with people on every level imaginable, all… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my… — Danny Gregory Copy Share Image
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
From the time I was 12 until I was 21, Chuck Berry was my favorite artist. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
“...the state should support art,construed not as amusement but as one of the chief carriers of civilization.” — Samuel Lipman Copy Share Image
I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Aboriginal art and culture draws from the land, for Aboriginality and the land are essential to each other and are inseparable. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
What am I afraid of as an artist? I guess I was scared before of just not being heard. But I'm too… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have… — Morgan James Copy Share Image
Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information. — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as… — Yukmouth Copy Share Image
As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it. — Ezra Koenig Copy Share Image
Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone. — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
As artists we need to stop making work only for gallery or museum walls, or the coffee tables of collectors. — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image