I don't know who made up this sort of greatest-hits list for artists. If one artist isn't moving forward anymore, then it's… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“It's her ability as an artist to see possibility where others see a blank page and, by extension, to see victory where… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
Most of the time, with artists like me who go on to become superstars, you never see them when they are still… — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex -… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
For me to get up and feel the urge to go to the set and all that, I have to feel there… — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own… — John Cage Copy Share Image
One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them… — George Jones Copy Share Image
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one… — Rod Taylor Copy Share Image
“ART VS. COMMERCE he artist stood back to view the geometric precision of his latest creation. "Beautiful," he murmured, "but will it… — Steve Moss Copy Share Image
Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think,… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
“-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so –… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
“A need for precision and perfection has always been an enemy of art, which is about coloring outside the lines. It is… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
When a child seen crying on the road being hungry in torn clothes, we least pay attention.Later we see the same scene… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
I just paint to fulfill an urge. When I don't have the urge, I just don't paint. This is not some stupid… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that… — Gyorgy Kepes Copy Share Image
Social media and music in general have been changing so fast. You can go on Twitter and go from one artist to… — Juanes Copy Share Image
I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
You always want to try and evolve an art form. It's not a very humble ambition; it reeks of arrogance. If you… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
As an artist, we have a big influence, and we should always think if we are doing more harm than good to… — Coco Martin Copy Share Image
People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight.… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of… — Plato Copy Share Image
“It’s not enough to be the best. You also have to be seen by the most. A masterpiece painting hanging in the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
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