After a couple of years at Vertigo, I realized that if I was going to be a professional artist, I'd have to… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
You can't expect somebody to speak out on a certain subject. If they want to say something about it, then say something… — Denzel Curry Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of… — Mikhail Sholokhov Copy Share Image
I was given an eight-foot painting on a luminous yellow background as a parting gift when leaving Paris in 2008. I did… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive,… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I give you everything you want as an artist, for so long. Consistency. Wordplay. Wittiness. You can check the checklist. Only thing… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I'm a natural born fighter, so this is what I do, and it's normal. It's natural. It's what I've always done as… — Anderson Silva Copy Share Image
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
“I did not always understand why I had to experience what I had to, but with time I could see that everything… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black… — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea… — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
“Our art will probably be accused of tormented and decadent cerebralism. But we shall merely answer that we are, on the contrary,… — Umberto Boccioni (Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely.… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I start by thinking I'm going to make use of all possibilities without troubling any longer about problems when something starts to… — Jan Dibbets Copy Share Image
I wanted to make pictures that contradicted themselves. I wanted to put one picture on top of another so that there were… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
My dad has always just had a lot of faith in me as an artist and as a person, and he doesn't… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
Gospel artists have to do something that secular artists don't always have to do and that's kind of abide by and reflect… — Jonathan McReynolds Copy Share Image
You get tarred with the brush of 'Lady in Red.' I play Russia or China or places all over the world. They… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
My advice to aspiring actors and writers is that your career's success is totally your responsibility. You need to make it happen.… — Christian Keiber Copy Share Image
I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord.… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
When it comes to our makeup artist asking me, 'So, what do you want today?' I'm like, 'I don't know.' I have… — Dinah Jane Copy Share Image
I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
“Parts are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed; there is a kind of intellectual remoteness necessary for the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My parents were always doubtful about my making a living as an artist. Even when I was up for the Turner Prize,… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. I am… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I struggle again to draw this man's face in a crowd of faces: which dog-eared lines and frayed adjectives do I use?… — Dorit Rabinyan Copy Share Image
“Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Being busy with daily work and chores, the canvas that we have within us gets filled up to the brim. We need… — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
Internet has considerably changed the rules. Some artists do not try to become celebrities: the internet does the job for them and… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
