No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird… — Golan Levin Copy Share Image
If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Cinema is the most challenging art form that you as an artist can create. It's easier to paint a painting because you're… — Baran Odar Copy Share Image
If you have ambitions to go beyond your dreams, you should not seek to copy others' styles, but rather aim to acquire… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Leonardo was renowned as a painter, and Michelangelo (thanks to his Battle of the Centaurs and the David) was known for portraying… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it,… — Wendy K. Williamson Copy Share Image
I always think that in some way, art is the best tool we have to prepare for death. It's like a sculpture… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some… — La'Porsha Renae Copy Share Image
Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
“There was one painting, I remember, that showed a broad, clean sweep of sky and the ocean drawn out to the horizon,… — lauren oliver Copy Share Image
“I was so thankful He gave me this chance to enter a painting, for painting was my weakness. If I could do… — R.A. Rooney Copy Share Image
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
…* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It's difficult to choose between these art forms. Iconography is entirely different from the style of the 15th century masters, who were… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
The only problem I had on The Voice, was wishing that we, as artists, could have had a stronger opinion in our… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life,… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you… — Kevin Chamberlin Copy Share Image
What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an… — James Iha Copy Share Image
Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
