You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not… — Kesh Copy Share Image
Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt,… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better… — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them… — La'Porsha Renae Copy Share Image
I feel so lucky. When an actor that has been struggling for so long makes the transition into being an actor full-time,… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
“It is not I who mix the colors but your own vision,' he answered. 'I only place them next to one another… — Milorad Pavic Copy Share Image
As an actor, you just like to be able to play as much range. I just want to be invisible. I want… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about… — Susan Davis Copy Share Image
A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I equate inspiration with desire the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make… — Nita Engle Copy Share Image
If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The message is that if you believe in what you create, it's enjoyable and people will follow. The talented mangaka should know… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to… — Ari Shapiro Copy Share Image
Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint… — Francois Cavanna Copy Share Image
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
If you want to be successful in the art world you've got to look to the art world; you don't make it… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“The development of an image of the glowing human being can be traced in European art. One index of it is the… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
There was a review by Fairfield Porter from the 1950s about Mark Rothko, one of the more hallowed names in American art.… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“And it was as if I’d known that only here would those paints come into their own, and help me. That they… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
