As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
“There are two gifts which every man of images needs to be a true creator: a certain sensitivity to life, to living… — Brassaï Copy Share Image
Going to college is an amazing opportunity to not only learn and be book-smart but also to kind of stretch your wings… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it,… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
'Deadwood' was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything I've ever wanted to do as an actor as an… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
“The Almost Free Theatre, the Fun Art Bus and the rest of them were phenomena of a decade which was simultaneously playful… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Learning how to shine a pair of shoes to me was like if you could do, you were like you were on… — Willie Herron Copy Share Image
No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
If you're just starting off as an artist, steal as much inspiration from everything you like, as much as you can. Take… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Paintings, people really don't understand... They don't really get paintings. Quilts they do understand because everybody has a quilt in their house. — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
“Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went… — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
I have met Mariah before and she's really cool and so funny. Everyone has been given the wrong impression of her, and… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“and a manner so peculiar and romantic, and extraneous, and ad libitum, and heart-searching, that—that—he—he is an impressionist, I presume?" "No," said… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
In terms of breaking an artist traditionally, it was in the form of radio. You had to pop your record off there.… — B-Real Copy Share Image
Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all… — John Berger Copy Share Image
In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation,… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
“My hope for you is not only to learn skills through this collection of projects, but also that it brings you a… — Chantal Larocque Copy Share Image
I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image