There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
I've just grown as a person. I think that's what helped me grow as an artist. — Fabolous Copy Share Image
Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.” — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they… — Jay Sean Copy Share Image
“Van Gogh would have to cut his cock off to make an impression nowadays” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society. — Herbert Bayer Copy Share Image
I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes… — Ryan McGinness Copy Share Image
I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it… — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and… — Joe Lando Copy Share Image
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and… — George Sand Copy Share Image
This man painted the inside of a very big church in Italy. One of his giant paintings there is called The Creation… — Babloo Copy Share Image
I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Congratulations. You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them. I'll begin with you.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it.… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life. — Issey Miyake Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'... — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new. — Prince Royce Copy Share Image
Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
“Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.” — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw… — Nick Carter Copy Share Image
Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“Art is the weapon Your imagination is the ammunition Stay dirty, and stay dangerous Create and destroy as you see fit” — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
