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
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
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
As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it. — Damien Hirst 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
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
The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the… — Anton Ehrenzweig Copy Share Image
I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on… — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
I'm maybe not so anxious to be a successful pop artist. Of course I want people to like my music, but I… — Robyn Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation,… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
God knows that we are creative artists when it comes to our lives. On one day, he gives us clay for sculpting,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented.… — Peter Gabriel 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's all about the art. It's not about getting on TV or not getting on TV. — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend. — Carly Chaikin Copy Share Image
It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician. — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that."… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
Im gunna draw a picture a picture with a twist ill draw it with a raser blade ill draw it on my… — Kyna Copy Share Image
I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I just felt very isolated in France, a very bureaucratic place, no space for thinking in a different way, an artist's way. — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
We have a whole art department on 'Billy on the Street.' We give away dioramas that we've made. — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy. — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
“A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to. — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something. — Tom Wesselmann Copy Share Image
The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present. — John Donne Copy Share Image
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
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