There's sacrificing for your art, and then there's just being dumb. — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else. — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life. — Gutzon Borglum 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
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
I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you. — John Currin Copy Share Image
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
As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I believe in tough love but I don't think I can ever be cruel to another artist. There are definitely better ways… — Jennifer Lopez 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
Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
The thing about writing or making art is that I'm not thinking about that stuff while I'm doing it. Like the driver's… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if… — Amy Ryan Copy Share Image
