I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand… — John Hench Copy Share Image
I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I've always been concerned with my sculpture. The drawings I do at night at home to relax. And for a long time,… — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
Making art can be maddening at times and frustrating and not always rewarding, frequently not rewarding. But you do it because you… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss.… — Kathy Baker Copy Share Image
“They'd paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
“I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
I'm always composing and trying to learn more about the business. In today's market, it's more important than ever to be self-sufficient… — Antoniette Costa Copy Share Image
What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time,… — Howard Scott Warshaw Copy Share Image
It's a stage with four lights clamped to it with walls made out of plywood. And then my name's in the center.… — Josh Smith Copy Share Image
You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
“To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I always like to talk about how important space is. Art is in the spaces. Anybody can sing a note; it takes… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City,… — Marc Davis Copy Share Image
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
All my favorite artists are downtempo - Portishead, Burial, a lot of 1990s trip-hop. Some people are saying that I'm trying to… — Mister Lies Copy Share Image
Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one:… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are used to their music being reused online and have come to accept and embrace it. You have… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before I had my son, I became obsessed by this painting I'd seen in an art gallery. It was a lot of… — Nicola Walker Copy Share Image
“If the halls of the Hermitage should suddenly go mad, if the paintings of all schools and masters should suddenly break loose… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
One of the ongoing themes of my work of interest has been the idea of the inevitably of disintegration, of entropy, constant… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
