The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work. — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
“Well, she wasn’t strong enough to avoid being the background of my art. Just the background. Her words just my canvas.” — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I don't think a lot of people know what a real artist I am. I don't think they know I write my… — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window. — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“The convent of the sacred order of the Blessed Ladies of the Lobster had once been a dank and dark medieval castle… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I… — Andrea Suarez Paz Copy Share Image
Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to… — John Walford Copy Share Image
I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
“DeLillo presents art as the soundest magic against dread, the truest source of radiance and community. Albeit tentatively and ambiguously, Underworld suggests… — Mark Osteen Copy Share Image
African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained. — John Banville Copy Share Image
You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it. — Roger de Grey Copy Share Image
“I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
My dream is to continue to be an artist who gets to be different individuals from different walks of life. — Hosea Chanchez Copy Share Image
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism. — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
In America, there are some artists who are more of an image than music; if your star status goes down there, you're… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
As a musician, you want to be your own favorite artist and be able to make the music that is an accumulation… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” —ÉMILE ZOLA” — Carol Eikleberry Copy Share Image
“The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are.” — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“ 'Tell me, please,' Van Gogh asked, 'is it justifiable that a person wastes his only life by selling worthless paintings for… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
In the art world, sentimentality and intimacy and the emotive side of lives are considered very uncool. There's nervousness around intimacy. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of… — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
