What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
“He hesitated. "Don't you see? You're like a favorite painting. A found masterpiece, I loved both for things remembered and those newly… — Amanda Gray Copy Share Image
Traffic' was an album that had a significant amount of songs. It was not complete and I felt didn't fully represent me… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be… — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses -… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I will fall on my face sometimes And I can't color inside the lines 'Cause I'm perfectly incomplete I'm still working on… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more full filled person than they can ever be because theyre caught up in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was always an emotional, tearful kid. As a child I was really focussed on my fine art - I took it… — Marissa Nadler Copy Share Image
The creature from the black lagoon - I drew that creature almost every day, two, three times a day, for probably my… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
I never went into aesthetics. Aesthetics is what philosophers have to say about art, and a lot of them take an analytics… — Don Ihde Copy Share Image
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“After all, our main business in art, as in life, is to strive. Honest effort meets with its own reward, even where… — Aubertine Woodward Moore Copy Share Image
I think that I came of age in the 1970s with my own work, and it was a time of conceptual and… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records… — Rico Love Copy Share Image
An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I'm just a little more… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is… — Oliviero Toscani Copy Share Image
“Your impression of me is different than my impression of me. But that’s OK, because your impression is impressionistic, like a Monet… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
“Even some of his commissions that were completed, or almost so—Ginevra de’ Benci and the Mona Lisa, for example—were never delivered to… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
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