I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
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I grew up in the grunge era. I've always resisted the idea of being part of a machine, wanting just to be… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
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Family has always been very important to my life. Even though I make my living as an artist, my creativity is merely… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
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I got to meet a lot of cool people [on the Voice], and my favorite part about the experience was getting to… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one. Im… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course… — David Russell Copy Share Image
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Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist… — Lady Starlight Copy Share Image
I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me.… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I… — Howard Ikemoto Copy Share Image
“I have told the story of the great plague-summer; as an artist I could have wished that there had been more structure… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual,… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
My time in Moscowmade a man of memade me an artistthere was a reality and a brutality of life that I think… — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I see friends of mine who have kids and continue to do their art. It's deeply impressive. I can't even fit an… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to… — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
Painters who do self-portraits are engaging in a form of narcissism. But it doesn't work like that in movies. A truly narcissistic… — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
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