You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in… — Ray Stevens Copy Share Image
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this. — John Cage Copy Share Image
“Waiting to create sensual art with your fingers as brushstrokes and my body your blank canvas.” — Christina Strigas Copy Share Image
I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do. — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the… — Millie Bobby Brown Copy Share Image
The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of… — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
“You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling… — Virginia Lee Copy Share Image
Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal… — Leopold Auer Copy Share Image
That would be something I would stress the most to any artist - is, number one, don't ever allow, you know, success… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
“It is easy to love a woman, it is in nature, but art to love a man, and a profound art to… — David Gilbert Copy Share Image
We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter,… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
“Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
As artists, we have to change our style to match each concept. We're always changing, ever changing. — Kim Tae-hyung Copy Share Image
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.” — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate… — Chloe Pirrie Copy Share Image
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist. — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“One must possess many gifts … which have not been acquired by one’s own effort. And, moreover … the artist must possess… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
