The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would… — Hilma af Klint Copy Share Image
The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I… — John Champlin Gardner Jr Copy Share Image
I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back.… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
“Living is art. Breathing and heart beating is music. Seeing is painting the world with our eyes. Touching is sculpting the shape… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn.… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
My Picassos and Ferraris - those are kind of just toys. Those aren't the things that matter. What matters in the car… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“It had all been fake, a choreographed event, but they could not escape the dread that rattled inside their chests. It was… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
So when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case,… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
“The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I think the I Am album allowed me to show fans that I'm more than just a mixtape artist, who can make… — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest… — George Rodrigue Copy Share Image
We all want recognition and validation to an extent for our art, but greatness as a trade for decency is a risky… — El-P Copy Share Image
Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
“He’s living with artists!” said his mother tearfully to the ambassador. “Oh, leave the boy alone,” said the ambassador. “He’ll soon get… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The more people are listening to music and experiencing it, the more value for both the music companies and the artist, especially… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
“What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. The artist says, 'I will make that event happen… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
