I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Where we encounter the "naïve" in art, we should recognize the highest effect of Apollinian culture--which always must first overthrow an empire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
The artist thing is just natural. If that comes out, the music, the songs, I need some actual time which I dedicate… — Sage Francis Copy Share Image
Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“I understand that art is a necessary component of a civilized society, but you cannot just go around shooting people. That's going… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
“To create - a role, a poem, picture, music, a rapture in stone: great. But not for her. What she wanted was… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
There are many artists I would like to have the honour to cooperate with. To accompany Barbara Streisand or Paul McCartney or… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Although any collective answer to my question remains to be seen, personally I feel quite certain of it. Because if there’s one… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
I'm just more attracted to actors. I like their choice to be artists - that's ballsy. And a guy who has such… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
I have always found that if, while creating an artwork, the artist constantly feels that some accident would occur if he is… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
You learn really quickly how not only to be an artist, but you also become all of a sudden the CEO and… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
People who look at art don't really - don't go with the artist. They don't sort of accept what he or she… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“The Wall as a piece represents large amount of material spread across a range of media: the record, the concerts – enhanced… — Nick Mason Copy Share Image
Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
It's funny, but no matter how good an artist is, it's not until he stands on his own two feet and sticks… — Keith Whitley Copy Share Image
But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
The thing I'm going through is probably like the same thing that Little Richard and all these other artists go through, that… — Jermaine Dupri Copy Share Image
I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things;… — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into… — Manila Luzon Copy Share Image
Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but… — Bono Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing… — Jose Bernardo Copy Share Image
On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
My overall approach toward art is to remain as open as possible in front of the world, to always be curious, not… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird.… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
