The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Out of all the isms, movements and manifestos of the 20th century, it was the Dadaists who proved the most important -… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“In its vulgar way, a painstaking piece of work, although one must always remember—something often forgotten today—that because things are generally known,… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“A young artist's career is a matter of claiming a place for oneself, of saying, "I am here." Having gone through that… — Wafaa Bilal Copy Share Image
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
People romanticize struggle and obscurity, and I get that, but it's a very one-dimensional argument to say that people who have money… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking… — Catherine Yass Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.'… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
People's live are expressed in little details…The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an… — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art,… — Beverly L. Kaye Copy Share Image
The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
“To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of art. Theater, fiction, horror stories, love stories. This is… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that… — Vivianne Crowley Copy Share Image
People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I'm not into screamo music, but I respect it. It's hard to do, to keep your voice and stuff like that. It's… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Living through art is a better way to live - not necessarily making art, but being surrounded by art. I think it's… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
![“I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and…” quote by Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ee/keith-haring-14071_art_i-think-as-much-as-possible-an-artist-if_138866.jpg)
![“The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and a gallery manager], to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.” quote by Miranda July](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d7/miranda-july-1600_artist_the-thing-i-am-most-interested-in-is-pow_70745.jpg)
