When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope forother people… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically… — Lloyd Kaufman Copy Share Image
“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and… — Bai Ling Copy Share Image
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint...… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting.… — James Nares Copy Share Image
The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect… — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars,… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
Resistance in my experience always kicks in when you're trying to move from a lower level to a higher level or to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way:… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Mixtapes are extremely important, especially for New York or North East artists. They allow you to be creative, to get feedback and… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
You know my mother during her lifetime was unable to set up a foundation for the arts. She always had that idea… — Albert II, Prince of Monaco Copy Share Image
To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“The work of artists and scietists is ultimately the pursuit of truth, but members of both camps understand that truth is its… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“Whatever he learned from me, I learned well from Leonardo that teaching is a matter of drawing out from men what is… — Traci L. Slatton Copy Share Image
When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“I drew a self-portrait of myself, drawn with my eyes closed from a memory someone else may or may not have had… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so… — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think that these are different times, and different things are available to artists, and certain things have become passé. You've already… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
You can't always do that which you can do in your sleep. That doesn't fulfill an artist. You're looking for places where… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
“The masters must be copied over and over again," Degas said, "and it is only after proving yourself a good copyist that… — Degas Copy Share Image
What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image