If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow. — Claire Bloom Copy Share Image
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own. — Laura Harris Copy Share Image
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday… — Grant Wood Copy Share Image
I know there's a creative side to artists to - pardon me - there's a creative side to scientists already, but there… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great… — Marjorie Benton Cooke Copy Share Image
I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
“Producers problems is in need of vocalist and Vocalist problems is in need of a Studio.” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
“Live is likes a canvas.. you are the one who put the colour on that.. so put it properly or you may… — AidaKhalida Copy Share Image
When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them. — Peter Wright Copy Share Image
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I want to stay consistent and drop an album every year, so in the long run, you can see that I'm an… — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I was so fixated on being a wife and being there for someone else that I kind of neglected who I was… — Keyshia Cole Copy Share Image
Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here. — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw? — Banksy Copy Share Image
I want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
