Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff -… — Allison Mackie Copy Share Image
What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
“Farber says (in my recollection, anyway) the European (or classical) art, including film, is culturally assumed to be a monumental slab. It's… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The light of artistic creation is also blinding. The artist can’t see the suffering he causes to those around him. And the’ll… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
[Being in the States] is almost like being on a holiday. It's kind of annoying because everyone's like "Oh, you're so obsessed… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
If an artist knows you have respect for their talent - which I have to feel to my core, to sign them… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself.… — Taeyang Copy Share Image
“Finally, every society develops a system of aesthetic standards that get manifested in everything from decorative art, music, and dance to the… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
You know, with the funeral home, that is my artistic outlet where I can paint and play with science and bodies and… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come… — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist… — Wendy Ewald Copy Share Image
For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“On September 2, 2011, the bronze statue for the dial-painters was unveiled by the governor in Ottawa, Illinois. It is a statue… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants… — Clive James Copy Share Image
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
“What Is Art?150 I’m beginning to think that maybe I’m exceedingly vulgar — and the funny thing about it is — I… — Sarah Greenough Copy Share Image
The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see.… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I felt really lucky in that I've gotten to know some of my favorite artists; I get to tell them how important… — Finneas Copy Share Image
I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is… — Leonid Afremov Copy Share Image
Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
![“[Being in the States] is almost like being on a holiday. It's kind of annoying because everyone's like "Oh, you're so obsessed with America," but it's not really that. I just really enjoy being here - I'm not the first British artist to make music here and be inspired by the country.” quote by Marina and the Diamonds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0dd/marina-and-the-diamonds-7675_america_being-in-the-states-is-almost-like-being_581266.png)
![“I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd2/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_i-began-working-within-the-streets-of-ha_2894302.jpg)
