The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying.… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A conviction, unformulated but strong, rose to the working level of her mind - that painting did something more important for Nicholas… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
I'm not a pop rapper. That's nothing against pop music - I love pop music. I've jumped on pop records for people… — Juicy J Copy Share Image
A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of… — Mark Matousek Copy Share Image
If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in… — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.'… — Ellie Kemper Copy Share Image
In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
I gave up on the idea of making art a long time ago, because I wanted to know how to make paintings;… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
“The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by René Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then… — John Green Copy Share Image
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Her flat looked like a mess –a coloring mess. Once you enter it, you can feel like a person had eaten all… — Basma Salem Copy Share Image
I don't refer to myself as a sculptor, but I use the word "visual artist." I prefer that, because that leaves the… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
The highest thing people can say about an artist is, 'You know, I felt he or she was singing right to me.'… — Steve Ross Copy Share Image
Whenever possible, I try to get a professional to do my makeup, because the idea of putting together a flawless look intimidates… — Amanda Crew Copy Share Image
In terms of my development as an artist, playing Professor Sprout wasn't all that important because she is well within my capabilities… — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
For screenwriting, when you're writing, you're talking to hundreds - hundreds of people who might be interpreting what you're saying. When you're… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out… — Tyler Farr Copy Share Image
I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or… — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
With Martha Stewart, the power of the brand, the power of television, taught me that if you can marry all those ingredients… — Charles Koppelman Copy Share Image
What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
“At its best, art can be nothing more than a means of forgetting the human disaster for a while.’ I am still… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Mario'd fallen in love with the first Madam Psychosis programs because he felt like he was listening to someone sad read out… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The first artist that did it for me with just production was James Blake... I was just blown away... I feel like… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
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