“Although I am capable, through long dabbling in blue magic, of imitating any prose in the world (but singularly enough not verse—I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness,… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
“ART The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
“For the great eras in the history of the development of all the arts have been eras not of increased feeling or… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?" Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself.… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I love having my voice on my songs now, but it also means a lot to hear that another artist likes your… — Ryan Hurd Copy Share Image
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Art is a funny thing. It's a communicative medium. It really is, and it works outside of literature, the movies, stage, it… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
There are some very unsavoury aspects of art dealing that go with the unregulated nature of the market but its all part… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
With the way music is going right now, it's difficult for an r&b singer to make real music. If it's not with… — Tony Sunshine Copy Share Image
There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that… — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
Not 'I don't give a f-' to just be reckless and do whatever, but 'I don't give a f- what they say.'… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
I think it's our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the… — Mitski Copy Share Image
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Have you ever had a moment where you finish a piece, and then all of a sudden the piece sort of takes… — Fernando Mastrangelo Copy Share Image
I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of… — Joe Murray Copy Share Image
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
“All art, be it writing, painting, film, dance, whatever, is a manipulation of time and space. It’s an interpretation and a recreation… — Elisa Lorello Copy Share Image
Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
