“There are few better ways to get to know how a species thinks than to learn their art.” — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an… — Steve Lillywhite Copy Share Image
My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable,… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist. — Max Martin Copy Share Image
After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Pablo Picasso was generous. But he always signed and dedicated his gifts even when he knew that people would sell them because… — Claude Picasso Copy Share Image
I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to create an aesthetic that's my own; I'm trying to create a way understanding things through drawing and painting.… — Kysa Johnson Copy Share Image
Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist, but I wasn't really confident in my intellectual stamina for it. I was more intimidated by… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I've always been an artist that has had a problem with genres, staying in the box, and being told what I had… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
“Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.” — Stefan Balint Copy Share Image
It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something. — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen. — El Greco Copy Share Image
I can't deny people their art form. But you have to be challenged, and you have to meet that challenge. — John Hughes Copy Share Image
Becoming an artist and finding my way, I did kind of veer off into different genres and none of them ever fit. — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his… — Shanna Moakler Copy Share Image
How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century, — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist… — Sean Kingston Copy Share Image
I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist. — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at. — Elizabeth Ashley Copy Share Image
That's always the time to quit - when you have nothing to say as an artist and creative person. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
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