I have these large pieces of recycled brown paper stretched on my apartment wall and when I am not doing anything fashion-related,… — Sasha Pivovarova Copy Share Image
I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be… The… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I'm listening to Spotify all the time and pulling in different things. I might find an artist or a song that I… — Greg Kurstin Copy Share Image
The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
“Anyone can have original style,” he countered. “And yet no one truly does. We’re influenced by those who came before us, beginning… — Amy Tan 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
Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such… — Baker Brownell Copy Share Image
It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
What people that are professionals in the art world - both in literature and the other arts - always try to do… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken… — Charles E. Burchfield Copy Share Image
I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're… — David Chase Copy Share Image
All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I'm most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?” The tape gun fell out of Luke’s hand, and hit… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Tove Jansson was the most successful Finnish illustrator and writer of children's books of her day, and she was the most widely… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“I had no time to make a world of my own. I had to stay fixed, like Atlas, my feet on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and… — Paul Rusconi Copy Share Image
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
“A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Yes, and Duchamp too, when he was asked what he thought about God, said, 'Let's not talk about that. That's man's stupidest… — Richard Kostelanetz Copy Share Image
I realize it's about the artists and about the fans. Those are the people who truly have the power. It's like politics,… — David Banner Copy Share Image
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Europe isn't something connected by the Euro. Every little dimension of Europe is so hugely different, and I think America is different… — Patrick Wolf Copy Share Image
“Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know… — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists,… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
