I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
What I really wanted wasn't what I thought I was supposed to want. It wasn't what people had told me I should… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
Like in the paintings, there has to be moments that are completely right to be able to feel how wrong it is… — Francesca DiMattio Copy Share Image
I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings.… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
My songs are not angry or bitter, because I am not bitter. I'm hopeful, and as an artist I have to be,… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a… — John Carney Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Museums and galleries do recruit art historians, but they are overwhelmingly white and middle class, or else from abroad. They understandably fret… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like 'hey there buddy' and 'oh, look what… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
Many writers and artists portrayed the poor sympathetically, and even fought on their behalf, but they themselves were not of that class.… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thinking they didn't have cell phones, they… — Edy Ganem Copy Share Image
The greatest work of art created first by god and then by man, is the creation of life. The whole process is… — Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey Copy Share Image
After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It… — Tom Platz Copy Share Image
“Kate had made both the environment and the body for him, and he liked the tranquil mood of the piece. There was… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“Dale Chihuly." She pulls out her phone and moves close to show me a picture of his work. "It's an eleven meter-long… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I want to see where and how far I can go as an artist. I look back and see what I've done,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
“Advancing towards a person’s dreams with confidence enables a person to move beyond restrictive boundaries and meet with uncommon success. Liberated from… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Bruegel has these paintings of people just... interacting with each other. And there's this special wink - it's not a celebration of… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
You have to have really thick skin. Art is obviously there to be criticized and there to be taken in different ways.… — Bel Powley Copy Share Image
People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me… — Rembrandt Copy Share Image
As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it… — O'Shea Jackson, Jr Copy Share Image
My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I have a lot of respect for these rock photographers. You realize that some of them were really led into the inner… — Mick Fleetwood Copy Share Image
You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different,… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
![“My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most…” quote by Claude Monet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/804/claude-monet-2110_aim_my-aim-is-to-give-you-only-the-things-wi_3093847.jpg)
