The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but… — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
I have always had trouble paying attention. When I was supposed to be at work, I'd be doodling. But then when I… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It's amazing what happens when you're confident as an artist. The writing completely changes, and you're no longer depressed about your sound… — AJ Michalka Copy Share Image
Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“In the early days of cubism, the simultaneous presentation of many perspectives of the human face was subversive. But at a certain… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I would often draw in my sleep. That alone made for twice the work... I couldn't use the weird stuff I drew… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I remember Missy Elliot: seeing how she carried herself, made her music, and presented herself as an artist. That… — Rosalia Copy Share Image
But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up,… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I have the barn, it's just kind of like a studio. Almost all artists have la studio to work in, and that's… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at new artists trying to come out or trying to make their name and it's like they're coming into… — Rakim Copy Share Image
My kids, I love it when they tell me, 'Abba, I want to be an artist.' And I say, that is awesome...… — Jonny Kim Copy Share Image
I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they… — Charlotte Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
When I was in '97, I didn't know I was in a very major moment. But with the privilege of reflection, I… — Mara Brock Akil Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
Ian sighed wanly. "I once had the means to be gaga over art–before I found myself in a country where the standard… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
On the artist side, we made a significant investment in very young artists from the very beginning of their careers and helped… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion--how can you retain your self-respect… — Torgny Lindgren Copy Share Image
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
In Sparta, paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The aim of art is a constant, and a continuous job to reveal visually the attitude of our mentality. And the less… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness,… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
“He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't… — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Almost every artistic nature is born with a revealing connoisseurial tendency that appreciates injustice so long as it results in beauty and… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
![“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in…” quote by Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2a/joseph-conrad-336_art_the-artist-speaks-to-our-capacity-for-de_518811.jpg)
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