Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind... — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with. — Natasha Leggero Copy Share Image
I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label. — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have. — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ...… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
It's cool to see a bunch of brown kids in the crowd. I wanna be a brown artist that they look up… — Cuco Copy Share Image
“She knew better: when artistry seems most elusive is when you must focus, dig deep, and force yourself to think about how… — Maryanne O'Hara Copy Share Image
Most comics are not truly rebellious or creatively free. Most comics, paintings, music, etc., are derivative of other, more successful works. And… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
