A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you… — Phyllis Whitney Copy Share Image
Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The most basic excitement was the opportunity to work with Dave Cockrum. He was an artist I'd admired for years and our… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
“With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and, sometimes, even beliefs. Artists… — Jonathan Culver Copy Share Image
I'm really into the recycling of art. That one piece of art inspires another piece of art, which inspires another piece of… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I remember being influenced by great artists when I was a kid - not to call myself a great artist - but… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden,… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I'm transitioning from being a starving artist. My producers had success outside of the Daniel Caesar brand, so they invested money, time… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like… — Mark Grotjahn Copy Share Image
My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time,… — Maria Cornejo Copy Share Image
There are so many different ways to make art. And so many good stories. You don't have to have a budget. I… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“Painted Things I love my work and take pains with it. But today I find the slow pace of composition discouraging. The… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I… — John Berger Copy Share Image
If sculpture can really deal with the body, because we all inhabit ourselves, and if sculpture can really do that, which it… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
“The Joker's henchmen break into the museum and empty the display cases; this occurs repeatedly, again and again: finally it can be… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
I don't suspect that in many instances the artists who are dedicated in that fashion to the progress of that community are… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I can remember various stages when I wanted to be an artist, a football coach, and a musician but never an actor.… — Fred MacMurray Copy Share Image
We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges .… — Sean William Scott Copy Share Image
“One of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous creations is his painting of The Last Supper. It is said that while Leonardo da… — Fred Andrea Copy Share Image
Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving on the road… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
“See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes, experts, indeed. See, they would have us believe that there is an… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight.… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I always try to make everyone mellow down, make sure everybody's happy. The people I have employed have always kind of stayed… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
