The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Your right. We do spend a lot of time worrying about our looks, instead of focusing on what's inside. - Raven The… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets… — David Milne Copy Share Image
“And don’t forget that it is the press, the pulpit, and the university that mould public opinion, set the thought-pace of the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I got my first tattoo when I was 14-years-old. Unfortunately I didn't need a signature, which I probably shouldn't of got done,… — DeAndre Hopkins Copy Share Image
Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
I'm kind of loath to pick one project over another or whatever. You go into every film sort of thinking it'll be… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
“Life. Life is a show. It's up to you how to make your own story, do your own show and how to… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
“The true artist has no pride. He sees unfortunately that art has no limits; he has a vague awareness of how far… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“Sylvia would have taken it seriously- so strong was her devotion to the innate intelligence of form. Those pretty tools like glue… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
It's always a bit risky, when you put yourself out there with somebody in a collaboration, but I think we learn things… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
One challenge, if you do a website, a Youtube channel, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Ping, other things like that, is you don't have… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
Incompatibilists will tell you that a work of art has no meaning unless the artists could have chosen to create a different… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
“I saw a painting once where the artist had actually done that--signed his work in blood. ... When I saw that, I… — Neil Bartlett Copy Share Image
Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself.… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate,… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
I think that watching artists, soulful artists, they get into it. It's always the way I perform, so when I'm on stage… — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed… — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
In an industry that's uncertain and when you're in a lot of situations that are anxiety-causing, to have someone there who has… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters,… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
“My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the… — Jeremy Aldana Copy Share Image
I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're… — El-P Copy Share Image
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“How do I describe him now? Where do I start? How do I distill the first impression created in those few distance… — Dorit Rabinyan Copy Share Image
Art keeps its newness because it's at once unforgettable and impossible to remember entirely. Art is too volatile, multiple and evaporative to… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . .… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
We are not all the same. If you care that much, if you're that invested in us as artists and the changes… — Ashleigh Murray Copy Share Image
I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the… — Ilya Kabakov Copy Share Image
I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image