Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing… — Jose Bernardo Copy Share Image
On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird.… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
My overall approach toward art is to remain as open as possible in front of the world, to always be curious, not… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things;… — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into… — Manila Luzon Copy Share Image
I grew up in the grunge era. I've always resisted the idea of being part of a machine, wanting just to be… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one. Im… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
We should all develop the mind to rejoice in, praise and share in the gift of those who have artistic talents and… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Family has always been very important to my life. Even though I make my living as an artist, my creativity is merely… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
“One of the most connective things we can do for ourselves, is to become world travelers of our own internal landscapes. What… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
I got to meet a lot of cool people [on the Voice], and my favorite part about the experience was getting to… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
“If originality is a “sense of novelty and freshness” then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We… — Gabby Bess Copy Share Image
Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist… — Lady Starlight Copy Share Image
One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
“Perfectly written isn't human, exact replicas aren't flawless and thinking you have to achieve them all is futile. Seek to write and… — Anastasia Bolinder Copy Share Image
My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course… — David Russell Copy Share Image
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
To be a good artist, you need to be sensitive to the world around you, you need to be curious, you need… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
“I wish art was like money in that the more I made, the more interest it developed and plentiful it became. Money… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I don't think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is… — John Wain Copy Share Image
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture… — Dan Rice Copy Share Image
I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's… — Brenda Brathwaite Copy Share Image
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