“If you have walked into a museum recently - whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell.… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of… — Norbert Lynton Copy Share Image
I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Whoever is in charge of the artist will always have the upper hand. They act like it's the artists' world, but it's… — Sonny Sandoval Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has the benefit of the fact that he's dominated media coverage, I mean, literally dominated media coverage because of the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good.… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Perhaps because of all the money poured into this, the things behind the spanking displays look old and crummy, like articles from… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Damien Hirst is acceptable because he's a brand. It's like buying a Porche. Hardline conservatives will never accept it, others think it's… — Qatar cultural official Copy Share Image
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have any talent as an artist but I do have an awareness for business and what you need to bring… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat...… — John Gruber Copy Share Image
“I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper (fig. 74), spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm… — Gallagher Copy Share Image
For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'm going to be that type of artist but I do love cultural icons. Like Solange has been really… — NAO Copy Share Image
As I've grown as an artist, I've learned that my mission statement is really self-expression. I don't want anybody to classify my… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a… — Doseone Copy Share Image
“Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour - that is all. It… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Having that little bit of breathing room to work, and not feeling like it's going to fall apart at any second, has… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
If it weren't for 'Cuckoo's Nest,' it would be very difficult for me. It gave me a cushion to live at my… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Go with your gut every single time. It's never, ever wrong. Even if feels like everybody else is telling you that you… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I believe all artists, if they are not lying to themselves, must believe that the best part of their work, or even… — Jan Saudek Copy Share Image
To be earning a living as an artist at any time, any place is kinda the ultimate gift that you can receive… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the… — Robin Oliveira Copy Share Image
The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a… — Grimes Copy Share Image
