This man painted the inside of a very big church in Italy. One of his giant paintings there is called The Creation… — Babloo Copy Share Image
Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I think that you know you have experts in fields who spend their life studying one thing. When an event goes on… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
My fans - I hate the word fans...my supporters - it's an international following that isn't from being in London and existing… — Kesh Copy Share Image
“We may not have the power to profess our gifts as the artist does, and yet we come to recognize, and in… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“My object in The Prince was to show defeated Italy a model of her savior, a man as perfect in the bold… — Michael Ennis Copy Share Image
“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and… — Joe Lando Copy Share Image
I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it… — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
I think every artist that you like, or even artists that have defined their own times, they're definitely looking to the past… — Tamaryn Copy Share Image
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying… — Tim Minear Copy Share Image
“I know not why, but all the noblest arts hold in perfection but for a very little moment. They soon reach a… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I love like seeing an artist and just being fully encapsulated by the whole narrative and like, you know, getting so deep… — Ruel Copy Share Image
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson did something that no one else in history has managed - he connected with people on every level imaginable, all… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“I’ve had so many influences and sources of inspiration as an illustrator that it is impossible to name just one. I loved… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
