Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed. — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my… — Frank Frazetta Copy Share Image
It's a feeling I can't describe, to see my work in action. The best is when an artist is appreciative. — Karen Civil Copy Share Image
I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
It is like any other work of art. It is and never can be changed. Behind everything there is always The unknown… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near. — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that. — Gary Clark, Jr Copy Share Image
People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The iPod is clearly a tipping point (and I'm not quite sure it is a wholly positive development), because it is a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Jubal shrugged. "Abstract design is all right-for wall paper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side,… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes,… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I've been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to… — Khalid Copy Share Image
“I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature… All of this is art to… — Hunter Reveur Copy Share Image
I would definitely say I'm predominantly a pop artist, obviously, but my music is different. It's not just top-40-radio-type music. — Madison Beer Copy Share Image
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and… — Sam Francis Copy Share Image
The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
We could sit back and be complacent and do the formula that we know works. To an artist, that gets old to… — B-Real Copy Share Image
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is… — Banks Copy Share Image
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars — Banksy Copy Share Image
I love when an artist can stand by themselves and play their guitar and hold a crowd, but I also love bells… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to… — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art. — Moises Arias Copy Share Image
“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“The art of the saints is the ability to draw good out of every situation, no matter how bitter or painful.” — Marc Foley Copy Share Image
