Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I've always thought that there shouldn't be any limit to the things that are well designed. And I think that people who… — Ken Done Copy Share Image
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I see artists as the first responders. And when the proverbial crap hits the fan, we are there to be of service,… — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in… — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Why would someone want to start a museum in New York City when the Whitney and the Modern were already there? The… — Marcia Tucker Copy Share Image
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to… — Beck Copy Share Image
I feel like an expressionist nihilist deep in my heart. And I think nihilism can stop the wheel from going around, around,… — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art… — Yaya Han Copy Share Image
Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I was associated with the Artist Placement Group in the early 1970s and David Hall, the video artist, was an Artist Placement… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I feel like my strong side is not being technically perfect at the piano, but at curating my own work. It's not… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She… — Francis Meadow Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“I was also, slowly, to learn that there were painters whom you grew out of (like the Pre-Raphaelites); painters you grew into… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I've studied live shows and artists for so long. I got the tour documentaries and all that and watched them. I love… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I don't make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don't today. I record so that… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is… — William Mortensen Copy Share Image
![“I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. I thought, 'I don't know that many women that really do that… Damn it, I'm gonna do that-make this really big picture.'” quote by Cindy Sherman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b1/cindy-sherman-11074_art_i-want-ed-to-make-a-show-of-really-big-p_647387.jpg)
![“[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.” quote by Francis Meadow Sutcliffe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/francis-meadow-sutcliffe-63947_art_my-mother-would-have-me-smothered-like-t_742183.jpg)
