There are a bunch of independent artists who became millionaires and they don't owe anything to anybody. They don't have to give… — Anuel AA Copy Share Image
“I know. You think you love art because you have a sensitive soul. Isn't a sensitive soul simply a means of transforming… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“One of the things people generally admire about Van Gogh, even though they were not always aware of it, was the way… — David Markson Copy Share Image
That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I don't feel that things need make their appeal exclusively to one demographic. I don't feel that there is truly great art… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“But whatever the nature of your work, there is an art to what you do, and there are people who would be… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed,… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I feel like there's an obligation - this sounds terribly pretentious - if you're an artist, to share your own experience in… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
“Think of your day as a blank canvas, and everything you say, your art upon it. Then join your loved ones and… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Her drawing conveyed a forlorn and haunting suspense, as if asking the viewer to wonder whether these creatures would still be alive… — Sibella Giorello Copy Share Image
The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Having spent time on the Broadway stage definitely helps one's confidence in terms of feeling just validated in that world. Most people… — Jennifer Nettles Copy Share Image
Sometime when I was in my mid-twenties I noticed, "Hey, even I don't go into too many art galleries. Why? Because I… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious.… — Sam Savage Copy Share Image
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I… — David Small Copy Share Image
Personal evolution has nothing to do with art, it's never. Art is a sine curve: dark and light change permanently, in cumulative… — Jonathan Meese Copy Share Image
I was a child but weirdly uninhibited. I talked to people and inserted myself in all kinds of absurd situations. I think… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
People have these weird ideas about artists being romantic, generous people, and sometimes I feel like an asshole, a selfish kid, a… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal.… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I'm so devoted to my music and becoming the best artist I can be. I don't want to devote too much time… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
“No authority is wholly natural or native; when we’re not borrowing from our neighbors, we’re borrowing from our ancestors. One reason art… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
