My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall… — Keith Crown Copy Share Image
'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that… — Judith Hill Copy Share Image
While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
I don't take lessons in art. It all comes from the heart, and sure I'd love to study art! In school I… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to… — Exene Cervenka Copy Share Image
Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
Everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Ultimately I'm… — Ron White Copy Share Image
Everywhere I've been, from South Africa to Brazil, people are connected to it. For me, art is a way to bring people… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put… — Christopher Willard Copy Share Image
I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
What do you want art to give you? What do you want cultural experience to give you? Shouldn't it be in-depth, profound… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is,… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free.… — Federico Zuccari Copy Share Image
I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.… — Yves Tanguy Copy Share Image
“The artist glanced at the inflexible image of king, commander, dame, and allegory, that stood around, on the best of which might… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There's a kind of despair about whether art can really do anything, but you have to incorporate that despair into the way… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“That is also a unique Slovenian tradition, and people have different opinions on how it originated. Some believe the paintings were originally… — Jay Ebben Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the… — Earle Brown Copy Share Image
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who is never… — Armand Trousseau Copy Share Image
It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just… — Galarrwuy Yunupingu Copy Share Image
I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on… — Mike Thompson Copy Share Image
I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there's a real lack of intimacy.… — Tristan Wilds Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the collective unconscious. The idea that there is a deep connection between all of us that goes… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
“We came around the corner and stood in the doorway of what looked like a paint-testing ground. This was where we proved… — Sylvia Harney Copy Share Image
A lot of people aren't familiar with me, but it's not my job to make people familiar with me. There's millions of… — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I met Méret Oppenheim when I was a very young artist just coming to New York. She really liked my early films… — Rebecca Horn Copy Share Image
“In commercial art - and all art that is worthy of the name is commercial sooner or later - stupidity is almost… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
