Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
“Keith Haring wrote " You see that's why I work like a dog and I worked like a dog all my life.… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that… — Elliott Hundley Copy Share Image
When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated,… — Gates McFadden Copy Share Image
It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee, because we are not going to allow - people will wake up and… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because,… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
When we go all over the world and observe art therapy, it's used frequently with people who are having some kind of… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I listened to pretty much anything that I could really feel, where I felt like the artist had to write those songs,… — Banks Copy Share Image
Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I always say this, but it's incredibly hard to capture live music. It's so hard because there's something that happens between the… — Alana Haim Copy Share Image
I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now.… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture,… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I have a lot left inside. I believe my art will last 500 years, 1,000 years and forever. For me, art is… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By… — Robin Thicke Copy Share Image
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful,… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“Here, however, you made art because it was the only thing you've ever been good at, the only thing, really, you thought… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
My best artist friend is definitely Jason Aldean. He and I really get along great and are really great friends. It's fun… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
My mother used to say that when I told her that I wanted to be an artist, her famous line was, 'The… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When a person has swum, traveled, run a lathe, planted flowers, ridden a motorcycle, made wine, painted a picture, parachuted, he has… — Erving Polster Copy Share Image
No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
Because there's such a long tradition of the arts being very prominent and very varied in Cuban culture and society, people do… — Rachael Price Copy Share Image
Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you… — Wu Guanzhong Copy Share Image
Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born,… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image