“I mean, reality sucks. The world is a cancer, and shits so bad it’s scary. Everything’s filthy. But you know what? One… — Mitch Lucker Copy Share Image
The first two songs that I wrote, produced and demoed with my voice on it was that song and then Akon's "Sorry,… — Bryce Wilson Copy Share Image
I've become more confident in who I am as an artist and as a person. I know what I want and am… — Tina Parol Copy Share Image
There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society.… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, you always want more recognition, but I'm grateful for what I do have, and I feel like… — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
“A thousand years ago Italian—or, more precisely, the Florentine dialect of the time—had no words for “art” or “artist.” Arte meant “guild,”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering -… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
Marginalized youth, workers, artists and others are raising serious questions about the violence of inequality and the social order that legitimates it.… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
You have to learn how to read contracts, how to position yourself, and about marketing. That is why you find the most… — Colm Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
“The cessation of art is something that can only be accomplished when art disappears into its own excess. And that occasion, according… — Eldritch Priest Copy Share Image
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and… — Nathan Parsons Copy Share Image
When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the… — Graham Cray Copy Share Image
I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at… — John Wijngaards Copy Share Image
I felt about life and the way I felt about my children was so deep and profound. It was the first time… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
It would be inadmissible if I would vent my opinion publicly. Not only could I harm the artist concerned seriously because people… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction… — Marc Davis Copy Share Image
My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people are involved in art because of the fashion of art and the conversation. It gives them… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
“The Wisdom of Solomon (Carl) They censor words not the things they denote: It would create less of a stir to drop… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do… — Christopher Owens Copy Share Image
I was always a creative child. I also liked to paint and draw. All those years of doing those types of things,… — Bianca Del Rio Copy Share Image
If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden… — Grimes Copy Share Image