What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
There's so much art and it's gotten so flashy. In the global marketplace, having art that's shiny and has neon lights is… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image
Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
“Good docents often begin by asking the viewer, “What do you see in this work?” The idea that the expert should be… — Dale B. Martin Copy Share Image
Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When I talk to children, I show them a typical drawing I made when I was six and point out to them… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
My daughter, the Butterfly Girl, is 21 years old. She is not married. That third verse, in Butterfly Kisses, where I marry… — Bob Carlisle Copy Share Image
“More than any expert Irene had met, Mr. Simms mastered the intricacies of dealing in art. He understood an object's worth, not… — Kim Fay Copy Share Image
Boarding for me, like in the days of 'Dexter,' was really hard, because I couldn't draw as well, and I had people… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
And I'll have you know that if you hurt my son again, if he so much as sighs sadly over his coffee,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
I really did feel like I was surrounded by family members. I didn't have a dad, and I remember there were all… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
It's always an interesting thing that happens between an artist and their work. People collapse the two, and for any artist, there… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
Every artist wants some sort of feedback, because you make this music and you hope people love it and you want to… — John Legend Copy Share Image
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the key to really jumping out of that idea of saturation is longevity. I think that's the number one thing… — Mr. Carmack Copy Share Image
Im living as an artist, and thats a staggering feeling, its a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Social media is so powerful now, and with all these blog sites and YouTube channels and videos, it makes it more and… — Tyga Copy Share Image
“What an absurd torture for the artist to know that an audience identifies him with a work that, within himself, he has… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
We've been fortunate enough to have a lot of people to ask us to be on their records - so many artists… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
The song "This Is Not Surreal," was inspired by a painter I love, Frida Kahlo. She really did suffer for her art.… — Lindi Ortega Copy Share Image
“The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality… — Beatrice M. Hinkle Copy Share Image
