“2. Craftsmanship goes from an outlet for aesthetic expression to being dominated by functional considerations; craftsmanship wanes as a place to cultivate… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
People say if you keep making work and keep putting it out, better things will come. I think artists should never forget… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist… Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“This is not an age favourable to the development of artistic genius; it may be that for a time all forms of… — Elizabeth Jenkins Copy Share Image
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
As an artist, I think it's critical for keeping yourself alive that you try to get your hands into something a little… — Maggie Siff Copy Share Image
Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
One thing that I am becoming to learn is that you've got to have patience and wait your turn in this game.… — Omarion Copy Share Image
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a… — David Galenson Copy Share Image
Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
What's happening in the larger world always influences art. When I first started the gallery in 1959, one of the first things… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My boyfriend has always been a collector of art. He once rang up Paul Kenton and asked him to paint a New… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved… — Silvano Arieti Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
It's one thing to turn up and jump around stage and give people a good time - that's obviously a big part… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy's: "Art is a human activity having for it's purpose the transmission to… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to… — John Waters Copy Share Image
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring, surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him. More than… — Toshitsugu Takamatsu Copy Share Image
In general, I think the best thing to do is to connect with other females. I love meeting other female artists and… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
“I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It depends on what kind of minimalism you're talking about, of course. I love both those artists - Brian Eno and William… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
