How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say,… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform… — Saul Steinberg Copy Share Image
I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game,… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at… — Luther E. Vann Copy Share Image
Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
It's not always a conscious thing - I've never been that artist to come to the recording session with a concept of… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album.… — John Astin Copy Share Image
I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was… — Randy Harrison Copy Share Image
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and… — Will Cotton Copy Share Image
Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
There are many readers of the book, who don't know anything about the authors and the artists. There is more than one… — Gabriel Ba Copy Share Image
Before the Griselda days, just being a local artist, of course, I wanted to get signed. Of course I wanted to take… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to… — Howard Finster Copy Share Image
Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
“Leanoardo wrote that a painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from… — Peter Wright Copy Share Image
Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riatlo, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of… — Tintoretto Copy Share Image
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey… — Banksy Copy Share Image
My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
I think that there should be this thing for cover-ups on tattoos. I want to develop it. It's like a skin-toned transfer,… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the… — Dustin Yellin Copy Share Image
