The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
...it's almost natural because when you're an artist you know what you want. And then if you're able to mentally turn that… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the… — Steve Olson Copy Share Image
If we actually love what we're doing and we go and do what we love, and every day we get up because… — Kerry Stokes Copy Share Image
In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is the music of the youth. It sort of has the same purpose as what we do, at least lyrically, because… — Amadou Bagayoko Copy Share Image
The people who truly love you don't try to paint you with their brushes & colours. Instead they make you hold the… — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share Image
One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Why do you paint, Akram?” I asked. “What—” “Close your eyes, Sebastian,” he said, stopping me. “Just for a minute, close them… — Ahmad Ardalan Copy Share Image
Can a great artist be mean-spirited, grasping, harsh to his family, violent in his emotions, vindictive in his hatreds, an all-purpose scoundrel?… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
“Having seen this reproduction, one can go to the National Gallery to look at the original and discover what the reproduction lacks.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
At some point, I'm just of the mind that no art is perfect, and it shouldn't be perfect. I think it's beautiful… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When I was doing just the underwater, I don't think people could relate to it at first. Then I added the land,… — Robert Lyn Nelson Copy Share Image
The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country,… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what… — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression… — Nelsan Ellis Copy Share Image
I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
Even though the industry is very big and there's lots of money, when it gets down to it, whether it's a photographer… — Guido Palau Copy Share Image
Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you… — Fat Joe Copy Share Image
Contrary to Warhol's 15 minutes of fame, I think that today in front of insatiable curiosity of the crowd, we would be… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
Every artist has different priorities. Some artists I know don't make as much music as they used to, because social media has… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have… — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
You cannot just be the feature act, not that that's a bad thing, because that's a good thing, especially nowadays. But as… — MO Copy Share Image
The real artists are ultimately people who don't consider their audience and are almost incapable of considering their audience. They can do… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both… — Irving Azoff Copy Share Image
I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
