We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
I can remember various stages when I wanted to be an artist, a football coach, and a musician but never an actor.… — Fred MacMurray Copy Share Image
The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“One of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous creations is his painting of The Last Supper. It is said that while Leonardo da… — Fred Andrea Copy Share Image
I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges .… — Sean William Scott Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight.… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
“See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes, experts, indeed. See, they would have us believe that there is an… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving on the road… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are -… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
I always try to make everyone mellow down, make sure everybody's happy. The people I have employed have always kind of stayed… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn't have at… — Mahmoud Reda Copy Share Image
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next… — Seth Copy Share Image
I'm interested in that way we perceive things, and that was part of what I was getting into in painting - the… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
“The painting of your home is something that is very important. This is because it is something that people can see. It… — Brian Erik Jamison Copy Share Image
“If you are born of the artist tribe it is a waste of time to try and function as a priest. You… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
We live in a media saturated world. I'm sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do… — Freddie Highmore Copy Share Image
As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is looking at… — James T. Hubbell Copy Share Image
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier… — Eric Wight Copy Share Image
As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
“Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one’s life, but at some point the dynamic reverses itself: life models, or… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“If a man liked his friends' painting or writing, I thought it was probably like those people who like their families, and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
I think at the end of the day you can do both: make money and stay true to yourself. But a lot… — Rahki Copy Share Image
The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
