As a lover of New York, I hope New York remains as successful as a city, even though the very groups on… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect;… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“We look at a picture throughout our lives, we listen to a piece of music throughout our lives, we read a book… — Arthur Henry King Copy Share Image
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on… — Walead Beshty Copy Share Image
There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“That's initially what got me interested in painting, is that I could create any kind of world that I wanted. No bad… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything… — David Finch Copy Share Image
“Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant's father had done a similar… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't like to work in an office. I like to work in my house, to be among my own thoughts. The… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“Art has to be a kind of confession. I don’t mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
“There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if… — Tasha Golden Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I remember being backstage in my full look and the make-up artist said to me: ‘Did you hear? Kendall Jenner is here.’… — Kendall Jenner Copy Share Image
It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I guess at my core, I'm an artist. And so the opportunity to utilize my imagination, create things and share stories is… — Judy Norton Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo aspect of being an… — John McEnroe Copy Share Image
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
It's like every time you have one of these, you're sort of - your lease is renewed another five years. And that's… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
I did not want to be the gay artist, and I talked to my manager all the time, like, I don't want… — Hayley Kiyoko Copy Share Image
“Eyes have not seen nor ears heard, neither hath it entered into the hearts of men, the things which God hath prepared… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing… — Walter Crane Copy Share Image
People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist.… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion… — Carter Ratcliff Copy Share Image
It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and… — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
The thing is, if you're going to take the artistic path, you sort of have to make peace with the idea or… — Lela Loren Copy Share Image