I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go?… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
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“The goal was to teach and spiritually transform its viewers. But in what way? We have already unveiled many of the artist’s… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“All events and experiences are local, somewhere. And all human enhancements of events and experiences -- all the arts -- are regional… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
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We don't necessarily need so many artists. I recommend that many of the people who think they want to be artists should… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
I love digestible art, but I make what I think is organic and realistic, and therefore it's incomplete and completely tangent oriented.… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
“The unity of style not only of the Christian Middle Ages but of the Renaissance expresses in each case the different structure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“True freedom only exists in art.The problem is you have to be incredibly good.No,I am putting it wrong:You don't so much have… — Esther Verhoef Copy Share Image
I don't believe love is real love if it remains cloistered within the confines of an intimate relationship; it should transcend the… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have… — James Wolpert Copy Share Image
We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
That's how a lot of Tame Impala songs start out - as ideas for songs I could potentially give to someone else.… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
“Women, the most beautiful things in the world,” answers the model. As if it’s the only thing worth painting, as if everyone… — Kitsy Clare Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
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I used to wish I would be a painter or a violinist, where maybe I wouldn't need to travel as much. Or… — Kathy Baker Copy Share Image
Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings,… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt… — Kate Micucci Copy Share Image
You cannot own a symphony or a novel in the way you can own a Damien Hirst. As a result there are… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
When you really make things that really challenge the status quo or challenge issues, and you do it artistically, and you do… — No I.D Copy Share Image
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I… — Gloria Stuart Copy Share Image
I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I always try to be the Madonna of wrestling in that she always changed her look and her style, but she always… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
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Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
![“There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first…” quote by Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b3/ralph-vaughan-williams-24520_artistic_there-is-a-feeling-of-recognition-as-of_1532348.jpg)
