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
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
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
“...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
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted. — Herbert Read 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
Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the… — John Walford Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age... What work will get done… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about… — Ken Gillespie Copy Share Image
Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is… — Joe Fafard Copy Share Image
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information. — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone. — Kenny Chesney 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
“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
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
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
Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again. — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people. — Kehinde Wiley 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
The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance. — Ben Shahn 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
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. — Zhang Yimou Copy Share Image
“Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that… — Lucien Carr Copy Share Image
“We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There are many things I do where the centre of it is... It's almost more my humanitarian work than art. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I’ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create! — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
