“But the thing is, in all my experience as an artist, I have found that there are people who want to destroy… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I'm pushing myself in other, slower directions. Some of the stuff that I'm writing is not necessarily so speedy; it's a different… — Christopher Paul Stelling Copy Share Image
“Part of the problem [with Picasso's fame] lies with the artist himself - at that point when Picasso stopped making art and… — Art in America; Picasso: A Symposium John Jacobus Copy Share Image
[I] was always my dream to attend the Art Institute. I have always had this zeal to become the best that I… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“In addition there is the fact that this girl's application in drawing seashells denotes in her a search for formal perfection which… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
Here's the thing, trust changes everything. Once you know what an artist can do, and you know their commitment level, it opens… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
An artist is the only thing I want to be. I only want my freedom and my creativity. It's all that I… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be present in my daughters life as much as I can. I didn't have any kids or really any… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
“In these days, when there is a tendency to specialize so closely, it is well for us to be reminded that the… — Jimmy Soni Copy Share Image
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
People often misuse the term 'Regency' to describe art or antiques dating from a vague period between the 1790s and the 1830s,… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what… — Alva Noe Copy Share Image
Going to the office of some stranger and waiting in a line, in a hallway, with five other guys who look just… — Thomas McDonell Copy Share Image
In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth.… — Katherine Catmull Copy Share Image
The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant.… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“the protocols of such gatherings, the sophisticated hypocrisies of supposed art lovers coming to an art show in order to ignore the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work. I'm not afraid of hard work, especially… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be… — Gerald Brommer Copy Share Image
I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give.… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of… In literature, as in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still. The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into… — Martin Gayford Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
If you see me as a controversial artist or controversial human being, then I could be cashing in on some reality shows.… — Yo Yo Honey Singh Copy Share Image
To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
For me, that's one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
All artists have to do that at a certain point. This shift that has to happen between the initial moment of creation… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“a gunpowder factory exploded at Delft in the 1600s, that the painter had been so haunted and obsessed by the destruction of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
![“Part of the problem [with Picasso's fame] lies with the artist himself - at that point when Picasso stopped making art and began making Picassos...it is a potentially fatal side-effect of success for any artist... Would it be a parody of modernism's self-referentiality to describe this point as…” quote by Art in America; Picasso: A Symposium John Jacobus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/974/art-in-america-picasso-a-sympo_art_part-of-the-problem-with-picasso-s-fame_3182724.jpg)
![“[I] was always my dream to attend the Art Institute. I have always had this zeal to become the best that I can be and I saw that this institution will act as an avenue to me achieving that goal. I applied to the institution and got accepted based on my impressive portfolio.” quote by St. Lucia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19d/st-lucia-2349_accepted_i-was-always-my-dream-to-attend-the-art_963799.jpg)
![“In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and…” quote by Katherine Catmull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74d/katherine-catmull-33506_artist_in-her-dance-she-controlled-the-bright-p_1312701.jpg)
