What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
“We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines.… — Thalia Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work… — Judy Dater Copy Share Image
Take two paintings by the same artist, one has a signature and the other doesn't. The signed picture is generally more valuable.… — Gavin Turk Copy Share Image
It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
First of all, as a professional, you can run around saying "artists, schmartists" as much as you want. But I'm a professional,… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
The main difference between commissioned work and work I do for myself is that if I'm doing for myself, I don't have… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
I think now it's the money who tells the artist what to do - it's not the artist who tells the money… — Thierry Mugler Copy Share Image
The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“I am an artist, my hair is rarely tamed & sometimes I sleep till noon, My house is messy and I speak… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is… — Jack Goody Copy Share Image
I know that for category purposes, people have to lump certain artists in with genre that they make their name or their… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
“The claims of contemporary art cannot be ignored in any vital scheme of life. The art of to-day is that which really… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders,… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
“There are no guarantees that if you work hard enough, or are talented enough, that you will be successful, be able to… — Jessica Todd Harper Copy Share Image
An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an… — Peter Stormare Copy Share Image
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
“Leonardo da Vinci, was brought to the Vatican in 1513 by the new pope, Leo X, and given a list of commissions… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
I don't make music to make money. I make music because that's what I like to do. You would think, "Yeah, of… — Del tha Funkee Homosapien Copy Share Image
My first artist bus was Jason Aldean's old bus, with deer antlers over the lights and cowhide on the back of the… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I suppose I view my behavior in such a unique way. I frame it as an artist and maybe kind of make… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
