“Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just… — Quavo Copy Share Image
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening… — Emily Lazar Copy Share Image
“What do you hope to acquire when you bid at a prestigious evening auction at Sotheby’s? A bundle of things: a painting… — Don Thompson Copy Share Image
Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom… — Oh Land Copy Share Image
I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
I think it's to do what's important to you, and having a lot of people - hopefully - listening to your work.… — MO Copy Share Image
There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“A class struggling to assert itself, to discover its true shape, which lies hidden, as does the statue in the marble, in… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist,… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was… — John Prine Copy Share Image
“In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic… — Amelia Jones Copy Share Image
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know… — Rico Love Copy Share Image
The reason for backing tracks is to not veer off too far from the record and have what the fans actually want… — Chris Johnson Copy Share Image
“Art is an attempt to capture the truths of the world as you see it in a medium you can share with… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
As the artist, you have to live in order to experience life to put that out there, and when you are successful… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
The only thing that's better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
At home in the states, I think there's a tendency in the states to go for the latest, greatest thing. The latest,… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led… — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
My experience says that if you put out a lot of personal work that's good, it tends to attract high dollar commercial… — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
When I first came in, family life wasn't at the forefront of your career or who you were as an artist. You… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear 'pop,' you're like, 'Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,' and… — Billie Eilish Copy Share Image
As nice as some of the booths are, it's not the same thing. It's a pity for young artists, because one of… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and… — Jean-Francois Chevrier Copy Share Image
The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I find that an entertainer is quite content to sit still, and I think an artist always has a little motion, always… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If you watch the award shows, you'll see variations of the hammer pants. It's always cool to see that and then every… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers,… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes,… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
![“It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just went the other way and didn't follow the rap tradition. We just killed it and made it our tradition.” quote by Quavo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3a/quavo-8176_art_it-seems-other-rap-artists-are-trying-to_3200979.jpg)
![“One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.” quote by Brett Morgen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f37/brett-morgen-30402_art_one-thing-about-kurt-cobain-is-before-he_2257772.jpg)
![“In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic value. Already presuming her desirability, [she] obviates the modern critical system; loving herself, she needs no confirmation of her artistic 'value” quote by Amelia Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/530/amelia-jones-95074_art_in-the-case-of-an-artistic-practice-that_543756.jpg)
