The thing about being an artist is that you evolve so quickly, you grow, you learn, you change, you find yourself hating… — Halsey Copy Share Image
It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“Broken Antler Gallery for three seasons, and I knew buyers sometimes disparaged a work as a ploy to negotiate a lower price.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with 'I Hope It Rains' it was definitely somewhere in the… — Jana Kramer Copy Share Image
You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of… — Jose James Copy Share Image
“When inspiration touches talent, she gives birth to truth and beauty. And when Steven Pressfield was writing The War of Art, she… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies,… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room.… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“What is art? Art is tar, rearranged. Art is tar on canvas or tar on tarp or tar on a naked body.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I sat there and my love to him poured out more and more, and, lo, he flew down to a stump, and… — Agnes Grinstead Anderson Copy Share Image
As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is… — Zhang Xiaogang Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, "Oh,… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
I remember going to Europe and one makeup artist made me look pink, then she tried to correct it but turned me… — Kelly Rowland Copy Share Image
In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
I think the whole response to our art being so positive is that it rings true and it feels a unique thing… — Finneas Copy Share Image
“Cedar groaned and picked up her spoon with her bright blue fingers. While the rest of her was the fiery brown of… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of… — Angela Cartwright Copy Share Image
I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
There's a difference between craft and painting. Craft, your job is to make it exactly the same every time. Painting is the… — Michael Chow Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality.… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image