I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I think everything happens for a reason and all of my choices have led me up to my solo album and made… — Fergie Copy Share Image
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“There are large and stately studios, panelled and high, in strong stone houses filled with gleaming brass and polished oak. There are… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Michelangelo was aiming with his frescoes, we modestly suggest that if he had dared to give the giant artwork a title he… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is,… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went… — Sean Combs Copy Share Image
About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and… — Dustin Yellin Copy Share Image
If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
As many have said before me, artists are creative people who can't be dragged into the politics of nations. I have always… — Mahira Khan Copy Share Image
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“I’m making tiny pictures, on a canvas that is bigger than anyone can ever imagine. My tiny pictures seem to get lost… — Nanne Nyander Copy Share Image
And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me,… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Most people that are making art are not famous! Most people that are making art do have day jobs. And it takes… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How can we ultimately fail to twig that the apparent impiety of contemporary art is only ever the inverted image of sacred… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which… — Wumen Huikai Copy Share Image
Instincts are a really important guide for any artist, but particularly filmmakers because it takes a lot to stay true to your… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely… — Wu Guanzhong Copy Share Image
In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Back before I entered primary school, I liked to draw, even though I was a brat. I especially liked animals and vehicles,… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
I've already spent a lot of my life doing what makes me go. There's a life out there while I'm still young,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
