Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off. — Banksy Copy Share Image
“Yes, I know, I’m only an artist. What would I know about the dark side of Baghdad?” — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
Good looks may be enough for a heroine, but to become an artiste, you need at least a working knowledge of the… — Radha Ravi Copy Share Image
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As far as I know, no money ever won in a lawsuit by IFPI or the RIAA has even gone to any… — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick? — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
“My work is the art I paint on the canvas of my life. Hopefully I'm creating a masterpiece.” — L.R.W. Lee Copy Share Image
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr Copy Share Image
The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Im living as an artist, and thats a staggering feeling, its a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
“In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell… — Michael Poeltl Copy Share Image
“No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of… — William James Copy Share Image
“The best works around us, whether they are poetry, music, or artwork, come from the heart.” — Ashley Wiger Copy Share Image
An artist is someone who paints and is creative, but they are not necessarily using their brains too much. And it's the… — Keeley Hazell Copy Share Image
“To do what we should in art is bondage. To tell others, with our art, what they should think or feel or… — David duChemin Copy Share Image
Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one. — Hedda Sterne Copy Share Image
But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
“But art is supposed to enlighten, isn’t it? Not just reflect? It’s to show us the best of the present modeled in… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage. — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time. — Jessalyn Gilsig Copy Share Image
A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows. — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life. — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I was quite successful as a make-up artist for 23 years, doing a lot of prosthetics. — Dave Myers Copy Share Image
“It takes courage to make art and put it out there for people to love or hate, or even worse—ignore.” — Christopher Greenwood Copy Share Image
I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Your life is your canvas, and you are the masterpiece. There are a million ways to be kind, amazing, fabulous, creative, bold,… — Kerli Copy Share Image
