An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are -… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn't have at… — Mahmoud Reda Copy Share Image
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm interested in that way we perceive things, and that was part of what I was getting into in painting - the… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next… — Seth Copy Share Image
“If you are born of the artist tribe it is a waste of time to try and function as a priest. You… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“The painting of your home is something that is very important. This is because it is something that people can see. It… — Brian Erik Jamison Copy Share Image
I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do… — Freddie Highmore Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is looking at… — James T. Hubbell Copy Share Image
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
We live in a media saturated world. I'm sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
“Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one’s life, but at some point the dynamic reverses itself: life models, or… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“If a man liked his friends' painting or writing, I thought it was probably like those people who like their families, and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier… — Eric Wight Copy Share Image
As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
I think at the end of the day you can do both: make money and stay true to yourself. But a lot… — Rahki Copy Share Image
The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The difference between email being identified as an art or a science is truly an individual decision based on the impact that… — Jeanniey Mullen Copy Share Image
Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
If you want to make a difference with art, which is a motive I perceive as questionable, then the single most stupid… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
“..:Putting on appereances is like painting a house without primer. The paint will deffenetly peel off and sooner than later and will… — Rafael Garcia Copy Share Image
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how… — Reed Hundt Copy Share Image
“Any form of art can only develop by means of single mutations by individual creators. If only traditional conventions are used an… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value.… — Jason Ralph Copy Share Image
“Sometimes diaspora art expresses a longing for home, and frequently it tries to construct a collective identity out of its mostly heterogeneous… — Sieglinde Lemke Copy Share Image
Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
You can simulate perfection, but it's not the same. Some one can do a copy of Rembrandt, but it's not a Rembrandt.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
