The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social,… — Jean Tinguely Copy Share Image
“As creators and consumers they fill the field of pop culture today, which is an economic enterprise and only by accident occasionally… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
The biggest problem that I see that young artists have is they aren't willing to fail. And unless you fail a lot,… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Rigid geometry forced in varied curves is "mother," / is "nature," is systematic violation." Muy Bueno. / This device is for you,… — Christian Peet Copy Share Image
I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has… — L.A. Reid Copy Share Image
There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few… — Lena Headey Copy Share Image
Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
“The objective idea is all I ever cared about. Most of my ideas occur in verse... To be too subjective with what… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., 'that it exceed… — Susan Quinn Copy Share Image
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong,… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Have you ever considered, bridgeman, that bad art does more for the world than good art? Artists spend more of their lives… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
College had a great deal to do with my development as a person. I don't know if I'd be the artist I… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
If I, as a human being and artist represent anything in the world, it is my Jewish people, and therefore Israel is… — Evgeny Kissin Copy Share Image
The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have… — Chet Atkins Copy Share Image
The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Honestly, I really can't speak on others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has their problems with the… — Travis Scott Copy Share Image
I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
As Buddhists, statues are more than simply pieces of stone to us. We believe the statue of the Buddha has a kind… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
![“It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., 'that it exceed bounds, often including those of tradition, decorum, and that mysterious thing called taste. It is the essence of art that it shatter accepted patterns, advance into unknown territory…” quote by Susan Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dda/susan-quinn-59654_art_it-is-the-very-essence-of-art-she-hallie_2758027.jpg)
![“I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really…” quote by Robert Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ab/robert-barry-3413_art_i-mean-part-of-the-justification-for-art_3173043.jpg)
![“The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.” quote by Lucio Russo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/279/lucio-russo-43521_artist_the-oft-heard-comment-that-leonardo-da-v_2595258.jpg)
