That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
“When I'm drawing - and here drawing is very different from writing or reasoning - I have the impression at certain moments… — John Berger Copy Share Image
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Street art is designed to be seen out of the corner of your eye, on the hoof. Art that's made for galleries… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
Often, when art from the canon is brought in to fine art classes, it is used as a prop to inspire art-making… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I feel a lot of sympathy for the young women I've written about, including Younger Janice. I think that all of them… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I did A-levels in Art, Graphic Design, Maths and General Studies, and always thought I would be an artist or graphic designer,… — Dan Hardy Copy Share Image
It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
People often think of artists and scientists as being diametrically opposed, but we both believe something is possible. We have a hypothesis… — Mira Calix Copy Share Image
I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem… — Jodhi May Copy Share Image
You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“No respect for beauty – that was characteristic of today’s society. The works of the great masters were at most employed as… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what… — Leonard Pitts Copy Share Image
For me getting paid for art is a class issue. I don't have the luxury not to care. It's great if your… — Nicole Georges Copy Share Image
It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative and not just in terms… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
Even the mistakes, even everything bad that happened, I wouldn’t change because then I wouldn’t be the person that I am today.… — Jay Park Copy Share Image
I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Maybe if you're Kanye West, or Lil' Wayne or Issa Rae, having songs, scripts and art leaked won't really put you out,… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you… — Common Copy Share Image
Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)...… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
. . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last.… — Craig Lucas Copy Share Image
Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of… — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
My makeup artist likes to define my brows with Maybelline Brow Drama. We brush up on the part closest to my nose… — Gigi Hadid Copy Share Image
My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
