When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a… — Virgil Abloh Copy Share Image
I have my struggles. But I'm doing whatever it takes to be an artist, to be the best technical jumper I can… — Max Aaron Copy Share Image
The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it,… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
If I owned a Rembrandt and it had some dull colors, I don't think I'd go put reds and yellows in there… — Ray Floyd Copy Share Image
The album [Blaxistential crisis] artwork is by a friend of mine who is a brilliant artist named Sara Pocock. We've been friends… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As much as I believe in the capacity for art to create change, and as much as being an artist is physically… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
“After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life...… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“The power of creativity does not just lie in an artist’s work, but also in how he or she continues to create… — Sharon Louden Copy Share Image
“In fact, if a museum were filled with all of the world's stolen artworks, it would be the most impressive collection ever… — Ulrich Boser Copy Share Image
As writers, you spend so long trying to build your cred as a writer, and then everything comes together at the same… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can… — Vince Aletti Copy Share Image
My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Sometimes we do derive some entertainment when we 'appreciate' something, and sometime we feel something when we're moved. So a lot of… — Randy Pitchford Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people who read and think: "George [Saunders] is so much fun." There's no denying you're fun to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years… I have a feeling. You… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
That's what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Art is the easiest thing in my life, and that's ironic. It doesn't mean I've worked little on it, but it's the… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
Sometimes, of course, the artist does give up, saying, in effect, "I've done enough". Prospero declares that the revels are ended, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist.… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
“The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession… — Titian Copy Share Image
I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
“Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings.… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Art is universal. It unites mankind in common brotherhood. As a missionary of civilization, its message is both to heart and mind.… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
You see so many people doing quite nice and respectful work, but nobody like Warhol. Warhol is outstanding. I think he has… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I would advise dancers, musicians and others in the entertainment industry to take up yoga, as it clears the mind and creates… — Emmanuel Jal Copy Share Image
I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I… — Madhuri Dixit Copy Share Image
In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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