To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was… — Blue Balliett Copy Share Image
Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
“was no stain left upon it. It was bright, and glistened. As it had killed the painter, so it would kill the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“My Last Duchess That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“Carol’s early works were inspired by her difficult divorce and inner turmoil, and she urges people to embrace the dysfunction in their… — Gwen Blakley Kinsler Copy Share Image
“When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people's marginalization from what the art subculture… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
There are people working in arts organizations who feel that in recent years there has been a sacrifice of quality and excellence… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
This man painted the inside of a very big church in Italy. One of his giant paintings there is called The Creation… — Babloo Copy Share Image
I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Art is like an avalanche being poured down your throat. You know it's going to crack, eventually it's going to go out… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“My object in The Prince was to show defeated Italy a model of her savior, a man as perfect in the bold… — Michael Ennis Copy Share Image
“We may not have the power to profess our gifts as the artist does, and yet we come to recognize, and in… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
I think that you know you have experts in fields who spend their life studying one thing. When an event goes on… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
My fans - I hate the word fans...my supporters - it's an international following that isn't from being in London and existing… — Kesh Copy Share Image
I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and… — Joe Lando Copy Share Image
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying… — Tim Minear Copy Share Image
“I know not why, but all the noblest arts hold in perfection but for a very little moment. They soon reach a… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I think every artist that you like, or even artists that have defined their own times, they're definitely looking to the past… — Tamaryn Copy Share Image
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
