If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings'… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art.… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas.… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brian Eno records and music got me through. It made me feel like there were other people out there who had the… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really -… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to… — Edwyn Collins Copy Share Image
I really have to think of myself as a painter first because sculpture came much, much later. As a student at the… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying,… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
“Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“I painted the lines and colours that affected my inner eye. I painted from memory without adding anything, without the details that… — Ulrich Bischoff Copy Share Image
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading,… — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for… — JR Copy Share Image
There is a certain vulnerability to creating art and putting it out in the world for the first time, but again, there's… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish.… — William-Adolphe Bouguereau Copy Share Image
Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
