“As an artist the nuance is your task . Your task is not to simplify. Even should you choose to write in… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Leon Golub was a painter. He was an artist struggling to make it in the New York City art world, but at… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share Image
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I do feel that there are things you can learn from an artist, but I think you need to be very close… — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
I was never exposed to art school. I grew up in an artist's studio. I was exposed a lot of studio time… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
“Recognizing Pablo Picasso in a train compartment, a man inquired of the artist why he did not paint people “the way they… — Rosamund Stone Zander Copy Share Image
“Artists make art not because they have knowledge they want to "express" but because they want to discover or learn something through… — Daniel A. Siedell Copy Share Image
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think there is more creative freedom as a solo artist by far because you might get a group push back on… — Myka 9 Copy Share Image
“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
“. . . no good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence.… — Jørn Utzon Copy Share Image
“Art has now done for Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow something they could never achieve in life: it has taken a shark-eyed… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I… — Mike Posner Copy Share Image
There's all this evidence that we leave now of our life, especially if you're a comedian or an entertainer. I mean, I… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is… — William Blake Copy Share Image
What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for… — Nas Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky with the people I've met over the years. Way back in the early '70s I went to [Phil]… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
When you're a young actor, you don't get very glammed up. Except, I remember the first time I had a photo shoot… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something,… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work… — Moliere Copy Share Image
At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made… — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films,… — Bruce Conner Copy Share Image
Don't believe Wikipedia, not everything written there is true. The Soviet Artists Union was not a communist party organization. It was a… — Ilya Kabakov Copy Share Image
What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are,… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
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