Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it… — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I love like seeing an artist and just being fully encapsulated by the whole narrative and like, you know, getting so deep… — Ruel Copy Share Image
But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson did something that no one else in history has managed - he connected with people on every level imaginable, all… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
I'm Dominique Crenn. I'm a chef, entrepreneur, artist, poet, human being. I have three restaurants in San Francisco: Atelier Crenn, Bar Crenn… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
Every single day, I wake up and take a glimpse of where I am now compared to where I was before, and… — Mj Rodriguez Copy Share Image
You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
What I really wanted wasn't what I thought I was supposed to want. It wasn't what people had told me I should… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
“And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Rahel thought of the someone who had taken the trouble to go up there with cans of paint, white for the clouds,… — Arundhati Roy; God of Small Things Copy Share Image
When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Like in the paintings, there has to be moments that are completely right to be able to feel how wrong it is… — Francesca DiMattio Copy Share Image
...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
