Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
To conquer a piece of earth and make it as beautiful as one can dream of it being: That is art, too.… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
Art is so valuable that I think its misuse is really dangerous. When it's used well, when it's telling a story well… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
I literally make music for my wife and my friends. I don't feel beholden to my fans. I don't even really know… — Ben Lee Copy Share Image
Every single painting is different. I'm always trying to figure out what I'm interested in. Usually when I go through and I… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of… — Kuo Pao Kun Copy Share Image
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I feel I'm the most reallest black artist in England 'cause I give it to you how it is, whether I'm embarrassed… — Mark Morrison Copy Share Image
For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias,… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They’ve got nothing to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing.… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
It's tough when you're an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I think that every artist - or anybody that's in business - could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
I think a good painting or a good work of art does many things it wants, I mean, maybe 15 or 20… — David Salle Copy Share Image
There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by [Laszló] Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“You can be an anonymous observer all your life, but then you never get the platform to transform those observations into art,… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art,… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Art and society was a lot more subject to sexism 50 years ago than it is now. Since that period, there have… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
“If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of… — Arthur Fogel Copy Share Image
The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes,… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“Despite all the admiration M. Swann might profess for these figures of Giotto, it was a long time before I could find… — Proust Marcel Copy Share Image
“Ask for the grace to let God continue to sculpt or paint me in different images. Those images (good & bad) make… — Melissa Regas Copy Share Image
Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
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