My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable. — Joe Jonas Copy Share Image
Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
What color is to canvas, body language is to human. Both doesn't speak but tells a lot. — Biman Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom. — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
I don't work with an artist to try to blow up, but to see if the music can be medicine, if it… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
If I could collaborate with any artist, I would want it to be like Marvin Gaye. Someone like who they wouldn't expect… — Gunna Copy Share Image
Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
“Happy the man...with a natural gift for practising the right one [art] from the start-- poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface… — Will Burtin Copy Share Image
Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The internet, like social media, seems to me to depend on how you use it, where you spend your time on it.… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
It's really empowering when, as an artist, you can visualize something and then have the final product turn out the way you… — Troye Sivan Copy Share Image
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product. — Richard McKenna Copy Share Image
“When I look at you I want to be a painter because to see such a beauty and not being able to… — Galib Mammadov Copy Share Image
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
An artist must be open to both appreciation and criticism. It's a part of the learning process, or else there is no… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
“When we try to drill and practice someone into subservient obedience, we’re stamping out the artist that lives within.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos? — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice. — Alexei Yagudin Copy Share Image
Once you become a curator, you will inevitably end up on TV, if only to talk about your latest exhibition. — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
Charity creates a multitude of sins. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman. — Jeet Aulakh Copy Share Image
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Drawing is something I do on the side, I like to see it be of use at times. — Coeur de pirate Copy Share Image
Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image