“When he was creating this picture, Leonardo da Vinci encountered a serious problem: he had to depict Good - in the person… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
For all artists... you want to be loved and adored by as many people as you can. But the moral we've learned… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to… — Brian J. White Copy Share Image
One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Madonna would not have done a 360 deal with us just because of our touring capability. We had to prove to her… — Michael Rapino Copy Share Image
When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Country music as we know it would be vastly different if it weren't for George Jones. He's in our musical DNA. All… — Pam Tillis Copy Share Image
“I think you might be surprised how thin the lines between art and sports really are - some artists consider their craft… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
My own belief is that rather than getting involved in trying to change the reality of social-political things, creators can be involved… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was… — Albert Oehlen Copy Share Image
The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those artists who doubts that they made dope-ass records. From the first record to now, each record has… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
“What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had to paint. Whether he painted well or badly didn't matter; painting was the… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Art is an amazing form of being able to share our experiences and tell stories and hopefully relate to other people, but… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
The voice of painterly integrity spoke to me. And the idea was that one would find this anguish, or whatever, and construct… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I think that the first responsibility of an artist is to follow truth, and the innate original forces and energies that are… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Scott has to be one of the most talented artists I've ever seen. He really captures his subjects in a unique way.… — Bob Lilly Copy Share Image
It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its… — John Walford Copy Share Image
“I have zero tolerance for the use of AI in any aspect of human creative endeavor. We can make a separate space… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In a way, I'm glad I'm first because I won't have to panic about following anybody other than industry legend John Romita… — Declan Shalvey Copy Share Image
“out that expending emotional labor, working without a map, and driving in the dark involve confronting fear and living with the pain… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“The only art I've been ever interested in is the curve of a woman's legs as she lays on the floor gibbering… — Dennis Liggio Copy Share Image
There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Desmond Morris says that men make better artists because they are greater risk-takers; on the other hand, he thinks that women are… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
“All that ink, all that pigment, all that desperate action to preserve that which had been created -- it is valuable because… — Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
“You finally show your professional artist friend the self-portrait you painted. At this stage of your development, what you need is a… — Douglas Stone Copy Share Image
