The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
We all want recognition and validation to an extent for our art, but greatness as a trade for decency is a risky… — El-P Copy Share Image
Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest… — George Rodrigue Copy Share Image
A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The more people are listening to music and experiencing it, the more value for both the music companies and the artist, especially… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
“He’s living with artists!” said his mother tearfully to the ambassador. “Oh, leave the boy alone,” said the ambassador. “He’ll soon get… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. The artist says, 'I will make that event happen… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not… — Albert Oehlen Copy Share Image
Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. — Ron White Copy Share Image
How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Echo & the Bunnymen just copied 'People Are Strange,' which is cool, we made some money, thanks. But when an artist finds… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it… — George Inness Copy Share Image
From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a… — Arnold Gehlen Copy Share Image
If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act… — Seth Copy Share Image
I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal… — Betty Who Copy Share Image
It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“I remember the first time I saw my favorite painting, how its fragile beauty caught my breath. And I thought if the… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
