Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
“The painter, Edouard Manet, once observed: “There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another.” — Bert Dodson Copy Share Image
Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues. — Mona Hatoum Copy Share Image
For my art GCSE, I did a screen print of the Queen's head that was basically an Andy Warhol rip-off, but I… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance… — Spencer Tunick Copy Share Image
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“expensive paint jobs in history. Michelangelo began at the top of the wall and slowly worked his way down for more than… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment...… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Whether I'm working with a Top 40 artist or crafting my own music, it goes back to one thing: telling a powerful… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
“Something in your brushwork touches the heart, Issun. You never abandoned your life as an artist after all.” — Oki Copy Share Image
I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
My favorite soul artist, I would have to say D'Angelo. That's R&B, soul. Trap artist, I would probably have to say...Young Thug. — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting. — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money. — Ernst Levy Copy Share Image
In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
“Most people don’t have shit… But paper and pencils are cheap, that’s why I draw.” — Ida Løkås Copy Share Image
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the… — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
I think it's important that artists use their voices for so much more than just their talent. — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music. — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
Like many artists, I have issues with anxiety and depression, so I try to live in a way that supports my mental… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. — Balthus Copy Share Image
“There is often as much sincerity, labour, and thought in bad painting as in good.” — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist... Anyone who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
