The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render… — Maxfield Parrish Copy Share Image
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
I think to varying degrees, every artist is using their partner as a sounding board. When your partner is the greatest songwriter… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Culturally, it's really funny to me that people respect the weird guy as an artist. There can be a curmudgeon in the… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
That lifestyle wears you down fast, so I started to take better care of myself. I exercise, sleep eight hours a night,… — Beth Riesgraf Copy Share Image
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“I want to remind us all that art is dangerous. I want to remind you of the history of artists who have… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master;… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . .… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts,… — Jessica Jackley Copy Share Image
I've worked with a hundred of the biggest artists in the world, from Madonna to Mariah Carey, and he [Michael Jackson] is… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
“...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper,… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest,… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
People see me as pretty low key in a lot of ways. And for me, like, even choosing to be John Legend… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“Mitchell Maxwell’s Maxims • You have to create your own professional path. There’s no longer a roadmap for an artistic career. •… — Mitchell Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think every collection is always a move forward. It's the same work - the process is always the same. The interesting… — Tomas Maier Copy Share Image
I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
“Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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