I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I always felt, as a listener at a show, that when there was too much banter between the artist and the audience… — Ray LaMontagne Copy Share Image
There questions of wanting to be an artist, and what does that mean, what makes you an artist? Are you an artist… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator… — Crystal Reed Copy Share Image
I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want… — Naima Adedapo Copy Share Image
But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
I'm very good at separating things, and one of the things that I've always separated is that my business from one artist… — Jermaine Dupri Copy Share Image
It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't… — Tionne Watkins Copy Share Image
I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Having a background in doing printmaking and letterpress, I think that I became very interested in images that were flat and graphic.… — Margaret Kilgallen Copy Share Image
I love movies; I grew up loving movies. I've always loved movies. I never thought about making movies until I took art… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
I think, what happened with 'Dead Silence' is that other people told us that we should be doing that and now that… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
I understand all the work to be of a nonabstract nature regardless of the style, form, or explicit subject matter because all… — Roni Horn Copy Share Image
“Duchamp likened an artist to a lewd monk. The poet must be a pure defiler of words, creating & destroying their meanings… — the mag man Copy Share Image
As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I got to draw shapes. I really like to draw funky, geometric shapes. And I got to use just different fonts and… — David Rees Copy Share Image
When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is… — Ivan Eyre Copy Share Image
From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
“I would call that man a born artist whose soul nature has from the very beginning endowed with an ideal, and for… — Hans von Marées Copy Share Image
It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware,… — M. F. Husain Copy Share Image
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
For years, I survived as an artist on grants and touring as a dancer with dance companies, and I was living underground… — Ron Ben-Israel Copy Share Image
This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
