I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom… — Lloyd Kaufman Copy Share Image
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).'… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The first two major label records I did what I wanted to do. It wasn't a problem until after I finished my… — Van Hunt Copy Share Image
As a graphic artist, my job on a local paper was creating the advertising as well as working as a journalist on… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes… — Edmund Blair Bolles Copy Share Image
There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for,… — Peter London Copy Share Image
For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Every time I'm in the studio, I always think of my professor in undergrad. He was like, "There are so many artists… — Wardell Milan Copy Share Image
“Expelled from the art institute for, among other reasons, drawing nudes as a single straight line, à la Cocteau, he was a… — Mark Lewisohn Copy Share Image
By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“The tragic emotion, in fact, is a face looking two ways, towards terror and towards pity, both of which are phases of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you do what you do, and in a way, you don't even control the core essence of what… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared… — Michael Tierra Copy Share Image
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A pen, you see, you hold it between your thumb and your index finger. No, wait, you hold it however you want.… — Anna Gavalda Copy Share Image
I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature,… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
The life of an artist is always reproving what you can do, and I feel like there is still so much more… — Lynn Whitfield Copy Share Image
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo Copy Share Image
'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little.… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
When I started thinking about it, I was like, 'OK, if throughout time I get labeled as a conscious artist, I'll be… — Common Copy Share Image
I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
