I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though… — Michelangelo Buonarroti Copy Share Image
“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
“The art, the art of living, involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Producers are the people behind the biggest artists in the game. We definitely deserve that title to be considered as an artist,… — Murda Beatz Copy Share Image
That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I want to make art that is helpful, that's useful to people, that starts fruitful conversations. That makes you think about a… — Kerry Bishe Copy Share Image
“The theory of 1,000 true fans states that an artist (not just writers, but musicians, filmmakers, carpenters, whatever) need only acquire 1,000… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
“One might be tempted to extol as an advance over Sophocles the radical tendency of Euripides to produce a proper relation between… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Art—real art—connects artists, and their art, and those who experience their art, to the metaphysical background of the world, to the imaginal… — Stephen Harrod Buhner Copy Share Image
“Whereas an art that affects you in the moment, but which you then find hard to remember, is straining to bring you… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I'm starting to develop my practice, learning how to come home after a really long day of shooting and letting myself breathe.… — Hunter Schafer Copy Share Image
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“her nose was not handsome— it was pretty; neither straight nor curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
“She was rare, few and far between She suspected he would be as well And the thought of two rare, few and… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
The reality of recording, it's one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right,… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
To brutally summarise a lot of scholarly texts, contemporary art is made possible by neoliberal capital, plus the Internet, biennials, art fairs,… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
Spending money on art has always been frowned upon in this country - even earlier, when my and others' paintings cost almost… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Science will...produce the data..., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need...most of all the brains of poets,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Art expresses complex intangible feelings we can't explain in any other way. Art is everywhere, art is love; love is God; God… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
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