Artists have their existential questions as human beings, and they address these questions in their works. But they are also thinking in… — Gunnar Kvaran Copy Share Image
Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Em reminds me of one of my friends from back home. It was just so natural. I forgot in two seconds that… — Alex da Kid Copy Share Image
“...I knew he had something that so many of my other students were lacking... desire. Not just the desire to create because… — Darian North Copy Share Image
Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it… — Robert Beverly Hale Copy Share Image
When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
I do make some drawings for wall pieces. I do work out some ideas for large-scale wall pieces where I have to… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I… — Tea Leoni Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I work serially, but also one of the reasons that I try to claim space in painting, is… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
I've always just done things that come naturally, and that's always been surrounding myself with artists that I respect and that are… — Janina Gavankar Copy Share Image
I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
When I work as an art director, I don't ask to see sketches from illustrators or photographers. I give them a basic… — David Carson Copy Share Image
“This recognition of the truth we get in the artist’s work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Fantasy like thought that no man could rain Just let her reign Run wild with her unafraid Of any rain storms They… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known -… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest,… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled… — Peter Wright Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
'Modern Love' completes the EP as an intricate musical piece weaving in and out of complex rhythms. There is even a beatless… — Subb-an Copy Share Image
“ That's when I got it. The rough canvas. God paints our bodies over that, over our heart and soul. It's the… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level.… — Arthur Ganson Copy Share Image
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
![“Em reminds me of one of my friends from back home. It was just so natural. I forgot in two seconds that he was the biggest-selling artist of the decade. He knows what he’s doing. Me and him mixed [the song] together and he’s not like somebody that’s telling somebody what to do. We were both on the…” quote by Alex da Kid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/794/alex-da-kid-217388_art_em-reminds-me-of-one-of-my-friends-from_3005035.png)
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