I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could… — Margaux Williamson Copy Share Image
The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Some people don't think that what I do is art - but for me art exists by definition. The beautiful and most… — Paul Rusconi Copy Share Image
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That… — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe.… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ?… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I have not attempted to try to relive or recreate the past; but I have sought guidance from those timeless elements in… — Frederick Hart Copy Share Image
It's my job as an artist and as an actor to use this platform to make people learn and grow, to change… — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well,… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I'd like to walk that fine line between the authentic artist self and the manufactured artist self. I'd like to exist outside… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Don't look at me like an R&B artist. Most of the places that I go to and the people that I be… — Keyshia Cole Copy Share Image
“Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Our music is always, as you know, very spacey- computer graphics, music, images, lyrics, and visual art we make ourselves, or that… — Ralf Hutter Copy Share Image
And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist,… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
Writing songs has always been my first and foremost love, and, you know, whether I continue to have success as an artist… — Thomas Rhett Copy Share Image
Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
I try not to see myself as anything, as that would be embarrassing. But if I had to label myself, I'd probably… — Matt Berry Copy Share Image
Music lives in cycles. One day, one type of music is on top and the next year another genre is on top.… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
I fell upon Jenny Saville's work and loved these great big pieces she was painting, celebrating all things flesh and woman, and… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
“Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that… — Timothy Simpson Copy Share Image
I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those are the murderers of art who are sitting on the top wearing crowns of fake intelligence. Let me bring them down… — Jeet Aulakh Copy Share Image
I'm African American, I'm a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
With regards to music, I don't want to pigeonhole myself and say I am a musician or a visual artist, because I… — Frances Bean Cobain Copy Share Image
There are any number of models artists can use to profit off of their talent and artistry. It is not up to… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by… — Ryan McGinness Copy Share Image
![“My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by reproduction, and more specifically by computer screen, like jpegs, but an RGB simulation of fluorescent will never fully accurately depict some colors. For example, our eyes are a…” quote by Ryan McGinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b0/ryan-mcginness-68013_artist_my-reason-for-making-my-own-paint-is-to_2618362.jpg)
