The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be… — Janet Fish Copy Share Image
It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
When I first got into graffiti I thought it was going to change the world. But when, 20-years-later, it still hadn't, I… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for an artist to do is to let go. I don't wanna be the dude - if you come… — Heavy D Copy Share Image
“Like a Zen master, she reduced to the essences: I do not need to walk around the Museum of Fine Arts; I… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted… — Nelly Mazloum Copy Share Image
Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
I've always felt that most jazz artists don't need producers .. most jazz artists know what kind of sound they want. They… — Christian McBride Copy Share Image
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Painting has to do with knocking yourself out day after day trying to get what you want to down on canvas. Maybe… — Zibby Oneal Copy Share Image
Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be… — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
“It makes a body ooze sarcasm at every pore, to go about Rome and Florence and see what this last generation has… — Franklin J. Meine Copy Share Image
The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge… — Victoria Justice Copy Share Image
“Back at Tittenhurst that night we tried to remove our acrylic tilaka without success. “The conservatives had a point after all,” I… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
Raja Ravi Varma was one of the few Indians who not only understood women but also represented them exquisitely in a single… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Never did much art till I was in my 30s, except for painting video sets, designing record covers and T-shirts, and making… — Hunx Copy Share Image
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
I truly find such a sense of peace and calm when I'm working, and it's an inner peace that I've never been… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again.… — Gary Panter Copy Share Image
