Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according… — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in… — Terrence Rafferty Copy Share Image
You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
After Cannes every year, I end up going to some foreign country I've never been to before and introducing myself to a… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
'Celebrity' is sort of an idea. I mean, I get to do something extraordinary, but I don't think it makes me extraordinary.… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
“Art is a meta-language, with the help of which people try to communicate with one another; to impart information about themselves and… — Andrei Copy Share Image
Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
I've been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are… — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
Nirvana's amazing, but they're just never going to find another one, there's no artist development anymore, you're never going to have a… — Richard Patrick Copy Share Image
Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
The argument that most lawmakers make about graffiti is that it's illegal because it's an eyesore, but you could easily argue that… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's a street corner or a… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
When I was 10 or 11, I started to sketch, and my drawings happened to be like fashion drawings... I'm lucky to… — Marco Zanini Copy Share Image
As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
What's great about it is that painting doesn't move. And so in the 21st century, when we're used to clicking and browsing… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs… — Klaus Teuber Copy Share Image
“I visit him a few times downtown while he paints. We talk about how he's going to Spain for the fall semester… — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
You try to say, 'I'm not a Christian artist, I'm an artist who's a Christian.' But public perception puts limits on who… — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
“I don’t think there’s any border between science and art. All the fiction films I have made were always on the same… — Jean Rouch Copy Share Image
