“The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. It takes… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator… — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“He's been living on the fringes of art for so many years, talking and talking about it, that he's come to expect… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
I want to create objects that will stimulate the viewer in ways that I am stimulated by these objects. Now that's an… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time;… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“There were several paintings to admire, one of them very fine indeed. Many were urban, industrial landscapes. Paul was generous with his… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
A Great Work of Art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I got a lot of body paint on me in a short period of time. I would definitely do it again because… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I picked Pacifica was because, for a lot of classes and for your thesis, you could do artwork… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
I know how difficult it is to make a career in the arts, but even if you don't make a career of… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
There's blackballing involved with Machine Gun Kelly, a lot of confusion about who I am as an artist. But that's so small… — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered… — Beatrice M. Hinkle Copy Share Image
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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Success has a lot of things that go along with it and I haven't experienced any personal resentment. I can't control any… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
I've lived a long time, and a lot of things shut down. Painting is one of them. It never occurred to me… — Michael Chow Copy Share Image
Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
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Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to make more money at concerts. That's from a financial standpoint. Night clubs have a better feel, better contact… — Al Green Copy Share Image
“Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: the… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? If you hear a voice within saying ‘You are not… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Kanye West - he's all over the place, and I think he defines what an artist is because none of his work… — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist, but I wasn't really confident in my intellectual stamina for it. I was more intimidated by… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Pablo Picasso was generous. But he always signed and dedicated his gifts even when he knew that people would sell them because… — Claude Picasso Copy Share Image
![“Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.” quote by Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/janet-fitch-717_artist_remember-we-don-t-see-objects-we-see-lig_2839026.jpg)
