I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom… — James Frey Copy Share Image
As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
When it comes to films, so much is in the hands of bottom-line guys. There's a lot of fear involved there, and… — David Nutter Copy Share Image
There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing… — Gene Black Copy Share Image
“I have always been a anti-establishment artist. I once believed, and still do to some extent, that one could get a better… — Casey Carter Copy Share Image
If I have a piece that's solely based on the web and it's going to also exist in a gallery, it needs… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
With millions of people creating songs and uploading them to the web internationally, most artists know they need to dismantle the monetary… — Josh Garrels Copy Share Image
I love Emma Watson's makeup a lot. I love Cate Blanchett. I'm biased, though. I love my makeup artist, Julie Harris; she… — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all… — Edie Falco Copy Share Image
There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson,… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
“The story is told of Michelangelo being asked about his methods for sculpting. He replied simply that he worked on a block… — David duChemin Copy Share Image
The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness.… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy,… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was… — Blue Balliett Copy Share Image
Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“My Last Duchess That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“was no stain left upon it. It was bright, and glistened. As it had killed the painter, so it would kill the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
“Carol’s early works were inspired by her difficult divorce and inner turmoil, and she urges people to embrace the dysfunction in their… — Gwen Blakley Kinsler Copy Share Image
Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
“When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people's marginalization from what the art subculture… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
There are people working in arts organizations who feel that in recent years there has been a sacrifice of quality and excellence… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Art is like an avalanche being poured down your throat. You know it's going to crack, eventually it's going to go out… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
