The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of… — Del LaGrace Volcano Copy Share Image
“We all need a project. Whether we're 12 or 84, we need something to work on. My grandfather had his paintings. They… — Skylar Cross Copy Share Image
We was different, and that's what made g-funk turn into what it turned into and create a new genre, and open up… — Warren G Copy Share Image
My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing!… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I didn't want to go to school, because I wanted to be an artist, and they were never going to teach me… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
I'm the one driving the strategy and I'm an artist. What I've convinced the company to do is to just be totally… — D.A. Wallach Copy Share Image
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of artists have succeeded in making what I might call "curator's art." Everybody's being accepted, and I… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims,… — Howard Zehr Copy Share Image
It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have… — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
The Peas is the mothership you always go to. But when you able to bring something new to the table, it makes… — Taboo Copy Share Image
I don't feel like my work is impersonal - it is, in many ways, a reflection upon me - but that's ultimately… — Landon Metz Copy Share Image
Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
“The Death of Allegory I am wondering what became of all those tall abstractions that used to pose, robed and statuesque, in… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I think, a lot of time, when I'm making art, I'm trying to get into a state of childlike play, where I'm… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For people like me, I think it is more about, 'When do people give you an opportunity?' rather than you deciding about… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
“From afar, Alex Winslow looked like nothing could penetrate his armor. But he was an artist—and an artist’s armor is full of… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
The good bodybuilders have the same mind ... that a sculptor has. If you analyze it, you look in the mirror and… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Being an artist and having a following can be a very scary thing because idolization makes you question your inner role in… — Halsey Copy Share Image
For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
The fact that we were encouraged to follow our conscience and not to follow the crowds - that's something I really miss.… — Robert Picardo Copy Share Image
In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
