“Art playing on its own disappearance and the disappearance of its object was still an art of great works. But art playing… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When you start a conversation about something that is under-discussed and you use art to convey it, I think that is incredibly… — Alex Sharp Copy Share Image
You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I have an exclusive gallery that takes care of the all of my artworks. I want to stay focused on the art… — Invader Copy Share Image
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I worked really hard to develop me as an artist and as a musician. I have so many different influences and play… — Elle King Copy Share Image
“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I am an artist, and I have a lot more to offer than just being a one-dimensional character, and I think our… — Rusev Copy Share Image
I have always been inclined towards art, but hadn't painted in a long time. I restarted it during the lockdown, by making… — Madhura Naik Copy Share Image
In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
There are usually three sections of people who like my work. There are those who like them aesthetically. They see beauty in… — Seph Lawless Copy Share Image
I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would… — Hilma af Klint Copy Share Image
It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I… — John Champlin Gardner Jr Copy Share Image
Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The same thing is true of the experience of art. Here the scholarly research pursued by the "science of art" is aware… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“..Abigail's singing while I painted. How we laughed so when no one was watching. And how finding a black-eyed Susan tucked into… — Adriana Mather Copy Share Image
Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
A person who is driven to spend their time and energy doing something must believe in it, whether they want recognition for… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Oh my God, everyday is a constant struggle and battle. Especially with an artist like me, when what I am doing is… — Syleena Johnson Copy Share Image
I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Body art isn’t a contest. The only person that has to like it is the person stuck with it for the rest… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
