Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors. — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon… — Rudolph Valentino Copy Share Image
It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented -… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“Among Chuang-tzu's many skills, he was an expert draftsman. The king asked him to draw a crab. Chuang-tzu replied that he needed… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist. — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we… — Grace Gummer Copy Share Image
No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I've just grown as a person. I think that's what helped me grow as an artist. — Fabolous Copy Share Image
There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere. — George Michael Copy Share Image
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Congratulations. You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them. I'll begin with you.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes… — Ryan McGinness Copy Share Image
“Van Gogh would have to cut his cock off to make an impression nowadays” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society. — Herbert Bayer Copy Share Image
I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they… — Jay Sean Copy Share Image
Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.” — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it.… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
