Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
“All art is, indeed, a monotony in external things for the sake of an interior variety, a sacrifice of gross effects to… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Getting into the paint is easy. Seeing if the help comes is easy - they either come or they don't. The hard… — Caris LeVert Copy Share Image
The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes… — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
I don't need to control the mind of my viewer. Now this might sound contradictory because I want to make these installations… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church.… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Art fairs bring attention to up and coming artists and some amazing new works. They are a way to connect everyone with… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Every show I've done, I've just wanted to understand something of this weird life that I woke up in. I've never woken… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I was never an R&B artist. People coined me one, but that's because, especially if you're in the States, if you're black… — Kelis Copy Share Image
You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of… — George Inness Copy Share Image
I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
In my case, everything starts from Marcel Duchamp and the new expressive possibilities he gave us with his ready-mades. I transferred his… — Virgil Abloh Copy Share Image
I watched my dad sketch a lot as a child, and I'm fascinated by hands. I feel like they're one of my… — Taylor Russell Copy Share Image
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the… — Banksy Copy Share Image
It's a long time coming as far as the work that I put in. Now I know that I got the stamp… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it.… — Mirah Copy Share Image
One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive,… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
