I found a new life in painting, maybe because I think I've found myself. I'm so much more comfortable with myself now… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
“Giacometti said something that I really liked: you never finish a painting, you abandon it. His paintings are not finished; their potential… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a… — Jack White Copy Share Image
A man has a choice. I chose the impossible. I built a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
“I thought of the cool, fresh air of the city I'd always dreamed of living in. The art museums and trolleys and… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
“As long as art is understood and valued as an “absolute” activity, it will be a separate, elitist one. Elites presuppose masses.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
“The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
“No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
Mos is a true artist who has a story to tell and gives back through his music. He remixed my song 'Different'… — Goapele Copy Share Image
In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age.… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I always like to remain a fan, put it that way: and I like to hold the idealised version of what these… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“I think as a society we forget that men also have daddy issues, they've also had bad childhoods, they're vulnerable beings.. They… — scott mcgoldrick Copy Share Image
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Rahul Jaykar, my character in 'Aashiqui 2,' was a talented musician battling his demons, while Noor Nizami, my character in 'Fitoor,' is… — Aditya Roy Kapur Copy Share Image
The worst was I had little control in terms of smoothing out my questions and making myself look good the way I… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up,… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
I was a martial artist. So, for me to be able to do all of the fights is a blast. It's so… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
![“I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It's a really weird job but I enjoy it.” quote by Brian K. Vaughan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e51/brian-k-vaughan-2421_art_i-write-the-book-for-one-person-for-fion_1605510.jpg)
![“[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.” quote by Gustave Flaubert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/110/gustave-flaubert-354_art_the-artist-is-like-a-pump-he-has-inside_2105838.jpg)
