Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“I prioritize my creative pleasure. I enjoy expressing my artistic side and receive the gifts of doing so.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
I don't think, as an artist, you should be trying to make music for every moment of someone's day. — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell whether he knows it or not.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some… — Brian Wildsmith Copy Share Image
Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
“Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he can't… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers,… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
As a working artist, I became increasingly aware of the patterns we see in the street and in America, becoming globalized in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Prince Rogers Nelson was the most gifted artist of the rock era. Not the greatest genius - just the most musical in… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed. — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
A lot of these artists are out here don't stay true to why they started doing this in the first place. — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Everything evolves. I'll always sing ranchera, but as an artist, you want to explore, to do the most that you can. — Vicente Fernandez Copy Share Image
If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence. — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
Elton John is a huge influence and an artist I've listened to since I was a little girl. — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future — Harvey Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In certain places around the world, street art is widely accepted and it is part of the urban environment. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
“When I first discovered the world of paper flower crafts, I was immediately excited and quickly consumed with all the possibilities.” — Chantal Larocque Copy Share Image
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
You say I'm good at drawing. Well, I am. You should see my resent pictures. — Naquitta Faith Copy Share Image
Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“The value of an artwork is rooted in assumptions about the human performance underlying its creation” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who… — Johann Peter Eckermann Copy Share Image
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
