Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
What is not cool is if we have a problem with an artist or if an artist has a problem with us,… — Rozonda Thomas Copy Share Image
The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet,… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Art never expresses anything but itself. It has an independent life, just as thought has, and develops purely on its own lines… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision… — Marcel Paquet Copy Share Image
The uber polite people who are the neighbors to our north and how we can be so different and yet so the… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
One of the things we say... is, 'Do what you know helps you.' And so for me, that might be painting. For… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“Because it will make a real artist of you. The more you suffer, the more grateful you ought to be. An empty… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest limitations for an artist is not being able to dream a golden dream. We're always saying,… — Dana Tai Soon Burgess Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I found collaboration to be a terrible thing in Hollywood because there are so many people involved you have to make a… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along;… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Even after seeing so much bad art in the last few years, it still seems possible that one can be led to… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Like the people that in the 60s or 70s claimed the "end of painting" - all they did was open up a… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
I started out as musician and recording artist but quite soon started to do my own videos. One thing led to another,… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Where they are setting up the market, it used to be a place for torture,” Julien remarked, indicating the place in front… — Mandy Baggot Copy Share Image
I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand,… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
