I was taught that you can't be a healthy individual without art, music, or nature in your life. All my art is… — Michael Horse Copy Share Image
“The good news was that "biology" turned out to be the magic password for working at the Museum of Natural History, just… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I've painted, but I've also done graphics since as long as I can remember. So even people with little to spend could… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I think around 2015 and 2016 I ended up in an identity crisis, artistically. I didn't know what direction I was going… — MO Copy Share Image
Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art,… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
I think it's a nice payback. There aren't many people that kind of give back to artists that were their inspiration. Most… — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“ambitious provincial towns and tourist-oriented countries wanting to “do a Bilbao”—that is, to transform their reputations and raise their profile by commissioning… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“It all boils down to instinct, good or bad. Artistic creation must be spontaneous. It comes from the heart; it has to… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form.… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something… — Darren Fletcher Copy Share Image
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“While painting The Last Supper, Leonardo would sometimes stare at the work for an hour, finally make one small stroke, and then… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
For me, the music of the Beatles then was serious and very, very serious art. So I couldn't take a picture of… — Astrid Kirchherr Copy Share Image
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Being able to draw well’, he goes on, ‘is the hardest thing – far harder than painting, as one can easily see… — Martin Gayford Copy Share Image
My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely. — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
“This may not be art as art commonly goes; the lack of discipline, of control, would seem to rule it out of… — Francis M. Nevins Jr Copy Share Image
Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Life direct...is what Flaubert and Joyce have convinced themselves the man may never get quite clear of but the artist has nothing… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
I keep getting compared to Marina and the Diamonds because she's kind of in the same place as me at the moment.… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
