Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting,… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before,… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
“Everything in the universe is a work of art. Every living creature a story. You should hang out in a museum or… — C. L. Currie Copy Share Image
I don't like being under someone elses thumb. I'm very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
I also got encouragement from my teachers at primary school but one person in particular who had a significant impact on my… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“James believed in the power of art, not because he thought it would change the world or because he imagined it could… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the… — Bruce Hutchison Copy Share Image
Patronage is a very old phenomenon that's occurred in people and in society for thousands of years. It stems from an emotional… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using… — Galina Vishnevskaya Copy Share Image
As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world.… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
“The concern is that the images to be devised won't be sufficiently upsetting: not concrete, not detailed enough. Pity can entail a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you -… — Rilke Letters to a Young Poet Copy Share Image
In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his… — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised,… — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anything that… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in… — Alison Mosshart Copy Share Image
It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion.… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“The art of one's own time tends to be formidable . . . because we have to learn how and where to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I tried to exploit such freedom to create those drawings like if I was a boy. I tried to draw with that… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism,… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I identify as being an independent artist. I think people often forget that Indie is actually short for independent. For me, the… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation, and there's this invariable, fascinating and rather sad situation of concentric… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“In 1972, Bayber's work underwent another metamorphosis, yet refused to be defined by or adhere to any specific style. Elements of abstract… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is… — Mervyn Levy Copy Share Image
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
