I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're… — El-P Copy Share Image
Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
We are not all the same. If you care that much, if you're that invested in us as artists and the changes… — Ashleigh Murray Copy Share Image
A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the… — Ilya Kabakov Copy Share Image
I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
Art keeps its newness because it's at once unforgettable and impossible to remember entirely. Art is too volatile, multiple and evaporative to… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“How do I describe him now? Where do I start? How do I distill the first impression created in those few distance… — Dorit Rabinyan Copy Share Image
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . .… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
“Art has no immediate future because all art is collective and there is no more collective life(there are only dead collections of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating… — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
There were times, earlier in my career, where I didn't have the wherewithal to self-edit, and I probably said things and pushed… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“General belief is “There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I've started a project called Planet Art. The purpose will be to remind people where I really believe we came from, which… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
I really love New York, and I've lived here for a long time. I know not just the different neighborhoods but the… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
... art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work… — Brooke McEldowney Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels… — Fabian Perez Copy Share Image
On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which… — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
