Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art… — Alvin Langdon Coburn Copy Share Image
If you are searching to figure out what is true and what is not, you will have a sad life. It means… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to designers, but I love going to fashion shows just to see the other personalities… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
“And underneath everything, whatever phase the world has gone into, there must be artists, there must be musicians, there must be writers.… — Jillian Sullivan Copy Share Image
I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“A bit of a blurred vision of a better world. Much of an organizer’s daily work is detail, repetitive and deadly in… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I'm more old school: I want to be like Keith Richards on stage. It's not interesting to see straight-from-runway clothes slapped on… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and… — William Rothenstein Copy Share Image
Like the Impressionists, I enjoy the effects of light, and especially natural light on the figure. If I could, I would take… — Ariana Richards Copy Share Image
I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I got a vision of Guernica - Pablo Picasso's painting, which is one of my all-time favorite paintings… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
Every time somebody writes a theory about where literature's going, that person is not only contributing thought but nudging things to happen… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
There is not one piece of artwork I have ever done that lived up to the vision I had for it in… — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
If a new artist wants to put out some sort of off-the-wall, crazy deep ballad about the sun or whatever, it might… — Thomas Rhett Copy Share Image
I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can... I might be in a financial review and… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
When I met Johnny Cash, I didn't know what to ask: where were you born, who was your favorite recording artist, what's… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
My definition of art is whatever an artist calls art. Us speaking could be an artwork, us sitting in the near-dark in… — Matthew Brannon Copy Share Image
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty… — John Keats Copy Share Image
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever… — Laozi Copy Share Image
To me, James Harden is like basketball's Picasso - he's an artist whose work you respect, even if you don't always understand… — Trevor Ariza Copy Share Image
What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I realized that it's my own fault that people take advantage of me. I should be around people who cherish my talents,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to… — James Franco Copy Share Image
There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this… — Norbert Bisky Copy Share Image
Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majorityis material. When these… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
“Peter is still amazed at the degree to which a certain widening gyre of accolades can change an artist's work, literally change… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think the four land artists I showed all worked within a few years of each other. And they were standard bearers,… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
“You should understand that I did not want you to read a painting. I/ wanted you to bathe in it before words… — John Yau Copy Share Image
