No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
I'm a regular person. I'm a regular guy. As a kid, I played games. As a kid, I liked poetry. As a… — Myles Garrett Copy Share Image
Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
“This way of 'choosing to be an an artist' seems lost for ever to today's impatient and cynical youth, who dream of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
This game is lame, the music comes second So you can save that stupidness for all them artists you checkin. Popularity don't… — Craig G Copy Share Image
I try to just put a blank stage in front of them, and say, "This is your space; you tell me where… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
“The painting was a portrait of Cinderella, finished before the war. Before Erlauf. It showed Cinderella in a beautiful, elaborate—and uncomfortable, as… — K.M. Shea Copy Share Image
I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
I think we give too much importance to artists talking about the art and the film and the books and the plays… — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler… — Stan Smith Copy Share Image
I love being in space. I love being challenged by great roles that a company like Marvel creates amazing movies that no… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
“During that war we had a word for extreme man-made disorder which was fubar, an acronym for 'fucked up beyond all recognition.'… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalise… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition… — Erin Willett Copy Share Image
Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and… — Betty Goodwin Copy Share Image
I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself… — David Mazzucchelli Copy Share Image
For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the… — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“You know that bad people can make great art, don’t you?’Said Annie. ‘Yes, of course. Some of the people whose art I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
