“What is the difference between “creator” and “craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing— ex… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
If I was painting a picture, I wouldn't want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I'd rather show people… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
“Plato's objection to the older art--that it is the imitation of a phantom and hence belongs to a sphere even lower than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace… — Virgil Copy Share Image
I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old,… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think art is beautiful. It's decoration and adornment. But art is also a really important vessel for social change, and social… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Regular people don't even realize how much artists mean to them. Artists represent a lot to the average person. People listen to… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all… — John Currin Copy Share Image
“[...] For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Art happens no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio stations, U.S. artists aren't compensated when their records are… — Neil Portnow Copy Share Image
When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything.… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on… — Edmund Snow Carpenter Copy Share Image
You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small… — Franz Cizek Copy Share Image
With me being an artist that took over a decade to get on, there's so many different things that I have in… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression […] I don’t think anybody can separate… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
People think they are not allowed to laugh at art, but they are. Damien Hirst laughs at himself. I know Jake and… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
![“My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that any artist who wants to create a grand narrative on a grand scale has to sort of parse out some of the smaller aspects of painting or the more mundane aspects of painting to others.” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_my-studio-practice-is-a-i-suppose-a-bit_2097387.jpg)
![“[...] For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the same way as a language surrounds us. They have entered the mainstream of life over which they no longer, in themselves, have power. Yet very few people…” quote by John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be8/john-berger-1590_art_for-the-first-time-ever-images-of-art-ha_2591874.jpg)
![“The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].” quote by Gloria Estefan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/530/gloria-estefan-2160_artist_the-script-for-the-movie-based-on-the-li_2721803.png)
![“My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression […] I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.” quote by Ai Weiwei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/ai-weiwei-824_art_my-definition-of-art-has-always-been-the_1900659.png)
