I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Rock stardom is hard work and it takes a team to make it happen. Also, communication is important because too often inexperienced… — David Ellefson Copy Share Image
Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
Politics is real. It has an impact on people's lives. It's harder to quantify the impact art has. Personally, I oscillate between… — Killian Scott Copy Share Image
“What was missing, I've come to believe, were the two postures that are most characteristically biblical -- the two postures that have… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the… — Laura Pausini Copy Share Image
Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
A comic is a way of literally experiencing someone else's vision with a purity that I don't think any other medium offers;… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t a prostitute; I was an artist who used her fingers to paint a fantasy that her body fulfilled. And when… — Marni Mann Copy Share Image
A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video… — Adria Petty Copy Share Image
Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I… — Wendy Ewald Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
I've been arrested a few times, but I've never been in real trouble. Because what I do is art and even if… — Invader Copy Share Image
We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal… — Peter London Copy Share Image
If you have the opportunity to have the best of the artist, then if you overpay, it doesn't matter. Eventually, the market… — Norman Braman Copy Share Image
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Con artists are using Obamacare confusion to sign people up for fake health insurance. The scammers lure victims with false promises like,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I'm so used to artists saying to me, "Listen, I'm going to have five pages done next week," and then three weeks… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I just woke up one morning, and I painted my Maybach red - I wrapped it, matter of fact, red - and… — YG Copy Share Image
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." In short,… — William Missouri Downs Copy Share Image
As an artist, I feel so fortunate to be able to learn from all these great musicians that came before me, when… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
It seems to me that awakening to the full potential of what your life might be - beyond the possibilities of your… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
![“[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in…” quote by Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/caa/henry-adams-1542_art_after-viewing-the-palace-of-electricity_2917374.jpg)
![“He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creativity' among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow 'too much.' Well, Before the…” quote by Pauline Kael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d42/pauline-kael-6910_art_he-bernardo-bertolucci-has-the-kind-of-t_441775.jpg)
![“I'm so used to artists saying to me, "Listen, I'm going to have five pages done next week," and then three weeks later I'm phoning them, begging them for two pages. And Stuart [Immonen]is a guy who will promise you five pages and deliver six pages, and the six pages are even better than you could…” quote by Mark Millar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6dc/mark-millar-4714_art_i-m-so-used-to-artists-saying-to-me-list_1201446.png)
