You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case.… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
“One of the basic principles of every single art form has to do not with what’s there—the music, the words, the movement,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
If you truly believe that artists have a responsibility to uphold their liberal virtues by using their massive platforms, then those artists… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
“It (Andre Malraux's The Psychology of Art)was too expensive to buy but I located a copy of this luminous book in the… — Vernon Sproxton Copy Share Image
We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. But… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more… — Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“I had learned from my own father that it was almost blasphemy to regard the function of art as merely to reproduce… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germany… Most of our male colleagues… — Hannah Hoch Copy Share Image
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast;… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos… — John Marin Copy Share Image
The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."...So, what… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of teams don't think I'm physical, although some do. Some say I can be physical at times, but they don't… — Rahim Moore Copy Share Image
I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only way to survive is to intently focus on how the art world operates. Once you understand how things work, you… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now.… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
“Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always — these are forces that fall within its grasp, forces that must travel… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm so happy they're not calling me Dru anymore. Cause Dru Hill is really four talented guys, and if it wasn't for… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base because it seemed like an interesting… — Marcel Dzama Copy Share Image
If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing."… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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