Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my… — Danny Gregory Copy Share Image
The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
What am I afraid of as an artist? I guess I was scared before of just not being heard. But I'm too… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Aboriginal art and culture draws from the land, for Aboriginality and the land are essential to each other and are inseparable. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“You see, the catch about portrait painting— I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start painting portraits till… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“We are all of us, every one, our own works; we present our souls to our Patrons at the ends of our… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“...the state should support art,construed not as amusement but as one of the chief carriers of civilization.” — Samuel Lipman Copy Share Image
“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it. — Ezra Koenig Copy Share Image
Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone. — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as… — Yukmouth Copy Share Image
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information. — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have… — Morgan James Copy Share Image
I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again. — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. — Zhang Yimou Copy Share Image
As artists we need to stop making work only for gallery or museum walls, or the coffee tables of collectors. — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
“Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that… — Lucien Carr Copy Share Image
“We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There are many things I do where the centre of it is... It's almost more my humanitarian work than art. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
