As an artist, you want to form your own identity and be your own performer. — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
“Who knew that all you needed to pull in the rich dilettantes was an art production that ends all of reality?” — Dennis Liggio Copy Share Image
Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with… — Agrippina Vaganova Copy Share Image
I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future. — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would… — Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Copy Share Image
I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The artist, in making victims of his muses, remasters himself as a hero, saving them from their otherwise inconsequential lives.” — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
'Deadwood' was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything I've ever wanted to do as an actor as an… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
“The Almost Free Theatre, the Fun Art Bus and the rest of them were phenomena of a decade which was simultaneously playful… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Learning how to shine a pair of shoes to me was like if you could do, you were like you were on… — Willie Herron Copy Share Image
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying,… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there. — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.” — Peggy A. Borel Copy Share Image
There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway. — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
I got out of the business because I went from being the biggest artist on my record label to someone they didn't… — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“What did you ever do to deserve this? In all probability, something terrible.” — Amrit Brar Copy Share Image
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit. — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band. — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler” — Sheana Ochoa Copy Share Image
Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives? — JR Copy Share Image
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Some people have recognized their friends in my paintings, but I'm not directly responsible for any hooking up as far as I… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
