Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
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I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist." — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self… — Hettie Jones Copy Share Image
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to have a cultural centre where people can sort of have a community of artists and like-minded people… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
“He’s the foreground of the painting that is your life together. You’re the background. You like it that way.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“[Medieval] Art was not just a static element in society, or even one which interacted with the various social groups. It was… — Conrad Rudolph Copy Share Image
The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something… — Jean-François Lyotard Copy Share Image
If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and… — James Nares Copy Share Image
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