It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy. I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.” — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives… — Jack Shadbolt Copy Share Image
“All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously.… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a… — Ed Parker Copy Share Image
The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
