Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
That's really special when you can watch a work of art change the world. — Ariana DeBose Copy Share Image
The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream. — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality. — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good,… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The song "This Is Not Surreal," was inspired by a painter I love, Frida Kahlo. She really did suffer for her art.… — Lindi Ortega Copy Share Image
We've been fortunate enough to have a lot of people to ask us to be on their records - so many artists… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
“What an absurd torture for the artist to know that an audience identifies him with a work that, within himself, he has… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
“The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it. — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it. — Sam Messer Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with using the money that you earn to be daring and buy art that you love or that you… — Yusaku Maezawa Copy Share Image
“here it was the whole world wrapped inside my arms And I let it all slip away” — Rascal Flatts Copy Share Image
As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. — Richard Pousette-Dart Copy Share Image
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“Žene su me privlačile, ali sam smatrao da ja kao umetnik ne treba da imam išta s njima, jer to može samo… — Slobodan Tišma Copy Share Image
I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, — James Agee Copy Share Image
Painting my nails was one of the things I liked to do, and I was so terrified of, like, ever letting anybody… — Teddy Geiger Copy Share Image
Art can end up answering questions or asking questions. But when it's not connected to actual movements, it doesn't ask the right… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
As an artist I have a thirst for creativity and doing a variety of different roles. — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
“what I do have, and so are my clients.” He took the piece he was carrying and set it up on an… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
