An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her… — Ellen Klages Copy Share Image
As an artist and as a Black woman coming out of a background that emphasizes service, there are certain responsibilities that I… — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“You have to work with the paint and work with whatever the day brings you. If it's a wee bit dreary out,… — Kieran Kramer Copy Share Image
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance of real story, real art — without the… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media?… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Because we all just function, the rest of us, just go to work and come home; artists make life bearable. They give… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them,… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and… — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
Six months is the most you can ask of any fan in this day and age, with the Internet and all these… — Drake Copy Share Image
Most people say, "Hell, no. I don't know who you are. This scares me. Like, I'm not interested in this."Another way of… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art.… — Jorg Immendorff Copy Share Image
“How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and… — James Nares Copy Share Image
I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my… — Maddie Ziegler Copy Share Image
I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
Being honest in the spotlight is the worst idea . But I do like when artists are honest and are able to… — Rita Ackermann Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity,… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I wanna get into modeling a little bit, even acting. Just expanding myself as an artist because the music thing ain't forever,… — Kevin McCall Copy Share Image
It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is not made only one way, art is a point of view? Rembrandt in our days would be Rembrandt again, because… — Marianne von Werefkin Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“[Medieval] Art was not just a static element in society, or even one which interacted with the various social groups. It was… — Conrad Rudolph Copy Share Image
The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something… — Jean-François Lyotard Copy Share Image
We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That's what I called it at the time - the… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
[The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a… — Danny Lyon Copy Share Image
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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![“[The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a couple of vintage prints, they could have you do an ad, or give you a ribbon... In capitalist countries they reward artists because we're ineffectual.” quote by Danny Lyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df5/danny-lyon-41657_ads_the-people-who-run-things-are-so-success_416825.jpg)
