The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Fiindca asta e misiunea artistului : sa-si depaseasca propriile limite. Un artist care vrea putin si reuseste sa obtina putinul acela e… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, is fundamentally an Artist; he… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a… — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
Every artist is a walking business. Your marketing tools are your headshots and your reel. That's what people see that's what your… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
“It is the right of art to consider an impression valid simply as an impression and to accept it as something entire… — Leo Baeck Copy Share Image
The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
“I can't remember the name of the piece, or the artist. Maybe it wasn't even an artwork. Why must I automatically assume… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
My first professional job was with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I started out in an educational touring play and eventually starred on their… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Being an artist is like being an athlete. You have to be in there every day, keeping in shape. You have to… — Lawrence Jordan Copy Share Image
Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it comes from the heart,… — Drew Sidora Copy Share Image
I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to play guitar until I was 21, but from the moment I was good enough on guitar to… — Luke Combs Copy Share Image
The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I’m…getting there. I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it’s okay that my future is… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The first time you listen to someone else's interpretation of what you've created, it's a little unnerving. They'll change lyrics or something… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
“So what was Michelangelo’s real message? “SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST”? A more profound and legitimate explanation of the Sistine is that perhaps… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
You never know what little bundle of encouragements artists carry around with them, what little pats on the back from what hands,… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
I really don't want to produce artwork that does not have meaning beyond simple decorative values. I want to use public space… — Judy Baca Copy Share Image
“My father said being an artist is the shortest road to the poor house , claiming "real" work is something you don't… — Russell Chatham Copy Share Image
One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something… — Ethan Slater Copy Share Image
I think art should stand in its own neutral place, because I think that's how reality always is - it's this duality… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
