“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What beautiful is is another question” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I want to be role model for people to be like, 'I don't need a major label to be a successful artist… — Madison Beer Copy Share Image
“because Christian artists substituted spiritual strength for Greek surface beauty.” — Max I. Dimont Copy Share Image
I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about… — James Wolpert Copy Share Image
“I wrote one line about every painting I saw and then did the same in the street: what sight isn't a painting.” — Zach Savich Copy Share Image
Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Andy [Warhol] put on his fey kind of act, but he wanted to be number one and he succeeded. But you never… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness. BLOG post-Perpetual… — Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox Copy Share Image
Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a… — Banksy Copy Share Image
My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure… — Tomm Moore Copy Share Image
Create what you remember. Create what you repress. Create what you've never known & what you can't forget. — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy. — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist… — Arthur Ganson Copy Share Image
If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile. — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can't just switch it on and off. — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
No artist that beefs with me or talks down on my name has that many platinum songs. They're all gold. — Trippie Redd Copy Share Image
When you're a young artist, you're playing for your peers and you never realise that you're going to get older! — B-Real Copy Share Image
“Every great painting includes hundreds of imperfect brushstrokes" Ray White” — Ray White Copy Share Image
The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity. — Beatrice M. Hinkle Copy Share Image
I was never your average artist, happy to do whatever the record company told me. — Jay Sean Copy Share Image
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and… — Len Wein Copy Share Image