The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. People found him disturbing… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“Is there such a thing as public good? That's all I'm asking. I mean, is your good the same as my good?… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I… — John Currin Copy Share Image
“Art is the one place we all turn to for solace. We turn to it constantly, whether you are listening to music,… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
Too often, if you look back through the history of representation and you take the work of African-American artists, the work is… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning - if… — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
There are people who lie like a great painter painting a masterpiece or a great author writing his or her greatest novel.… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
Friends, we have now won…I say to Aymaras, Quechuas, Chiquitaos, and Guaranis: for the first time we are going to be presidents.… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no'… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Galbraith, tellingly, drew a line between ‘simple modes of enjoyment’ (he included here sport, food and houses as well as cars and… — Frank Trentmann Copy Share Image
Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted.… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
“Tina, finding herself and her husband on a sandbank, so to speak, between two classes, had gone to the artists. The artists… — stella gibbons Copy Share Image
Alix [MacKenzie] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to [Joan] Miró as opposed to my… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore.… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out.… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
“Leonardo da Vinci. He knew and achieved more than possibly any other man that ever lived. He was never satisfied with the… — Can Akdeniz Copy Share Image
Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
As an artist, and for me personally, my biggest fear is categorization. I hate the idea that I would become someone who… — Ana Lily Amirpour Copy Share Image
Practicality continues to be a challenge for me - it's at odds with being an artist. I actually had a career on… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older,… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
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