if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
Someday when I understand more things than I do now, the fundamentals of my drawing will be so tightly woven into those… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I think, probably, being a young artist, there were a lot of things I thought I knew and I wanted to do,… — Tiffany Darwish Copy Share Image
No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
“And when I protested a bit more, I remember he said, 'My dear Lady Ponsonby, there's nothing immoral about this. Art is… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“A young house painter who fails miserably in his choice of profession is capable, also for a period of twenty years, of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh,… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, 'What do you believe? What do you think? What… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
“What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, "Oh,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Our farm is a 15-minute walk to Pablo Picasso's last home. Alongside it stands the lovely Notre-Dame-de-Vie Chapel with its 13th-century bell… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
'The X Factor' is like music camp. It's invaluable what in a short amount of time 'The X Factor' can do to… — Redfoo Copy Share Image
“A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work… — VIRGIL PROFEANU Copy Share Image
I just wanna be an artist, like someone like Bjork and Kate Bush and Regina Spektor. These are people that have saved… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“In a fearful, eroding democracy, it remains to be seen whether art continues to be free to act in the public sphere… — Gregory Sholette Copy Share Image
I suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Burning Man is like one big giant art installation in the middle of starkly beautiful desert landscape, and the attendees are creative… — Tom Anderson Copy Share Image
I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Inspiration is the most valuable commodity for an artist; it is for me anyway. I can't move forward in any way if… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
“They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early… — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
Who says you can't rock Wall Street and wear purple at the same time? Jennifer Lee opens the door for artists, healers,… — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there is anything holy,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I went to a terrifying boarding school and everyone was a brilliant singer or musician or artist, and I wasn't good at… — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
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