I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Music changes constantly, especially when you're a 'pop' artist. What's mainstream or pop always has new influences, new sounds, and I love… — Pedro Capo Copy Share Image
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: "talk to me, tell me what's on your… — Barry White Copy Share Image
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Well you can see that I'm still in motion. It happens that you share the music with the audience. That is the… — Manu Dibango Copy Share Image
You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I've got a long list of things I… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar… — Miyavi Copy Share Image
When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
I don't know if it will be my big comeback, but I think it is a statement - that I am a… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Once I have the finished sculpture, I’ll put it out on the street or in nature or somewhere where it interacts with… — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to put anything on paper because the best art has some element of danger to it and if you… — Max Bemis Copy Share Image
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun… — Fatima Sana Shaikh Copy Share Image
I did get a reputation for being choosy and not very easy to be approached, and none of that is true. It… — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It's already years ago now, but there's that South Korean music artist Psy, who had that hit song and it was a… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
“You have on your history," said the artist, "and we're not used to that, believe me. Not to history. Not to old… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
Exposing yourself to many kinds of art can only lead to amazing things. It helps you learn about your own art, your… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned,… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
You want to try to be yourself with whatever you're doing and put your own flair on it. I think that's a… — Jerami Grant Copy Share Image
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of… — Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Copy Share Image
“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished… — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
“Here is what I was trying to figure out: how a miracle happens. A great work of art -- something that makes… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
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