Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life… The object of art is to give life… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“You paint it,” he responds. “You are a specialist in darkness.” I tell him, “I didn’t live through it.” He says, “We… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I take the palette with me, but I have a lot of makeup. I was a makeup artist when I was younger,… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I think everything you do in life is art. What you do. The way you dress. The way you love someone, and… — Nate Copy Share Image
“Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Kirtaniyas are in the new wave of younger Kirtan artists bringing the divine practice of Bhakti from the ancient to the… — Jai Uttal Copy Share Image
I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or 'too much planning' thing. I am… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as… — David Kassan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
“my problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently,… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“The Greeks shape bronze statues so real they seem to breathe, And carve cold marble until it almost comes to life. The… — Virgil Copy Share Image
We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
“Cézanne, too, had had enough of psychology. He attended, instead, to color. "If I paint all the little blues and all the… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
My uncles represented a strength and a power I think that to a certain degree I looked up to. But from another… — Willie Herron Copy Share Image
For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching… — Jason 'J' Brown Copy Share Image
I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them, but my job is to filter the world and tell a story, not… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
If you want to speak about different ethnicities and diversity, rap and hip-hop are all over the planet. Every country, from Turkey… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
I am old enough to remember the enormous fight over Tate Modern. It is such a part of our cultural landscape now,… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I can't think outside of [bein' an artist]. That's how deep I am into this, and so focused that I really can't… — Tyga Copy Share Image
I'm constantly working on something new, whether it's a Garbage song, or for someone I'm producing or a song for film or… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
![“I can't think outside of [bein' an artist]. That's how deep I am into this, and so focused that I really can't think, like, if I wasn't an artist, what I'd be doin' in school. I'm pretty sure I'd be doin' it - if I didn't go into music, I'd be working, have a regular job or something probably, and…” quote by Tyga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94f/tyga-579_age_i-can-t-think-outside-of-bein-an-artist_1239974.jpg)
