I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“If you stand before a canvas, up close, almost to the point where your nose touches paint, you will see nothing but… — Pen Copy Share Image
With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
“Because art does for me what religion does-- it organizes a seemingly chaotic world. Because it is my way of making sense… — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
A creation made right after another. Each one made either by the neat strokes of an artist hand, or by the sloppy… — Music Copy Share Image
“The thing about being an artist," Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, "is that there are… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
“Recognize things when they are at their best, in their season, and know how to enjoy them then. The works of nature… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
I always longed to have someone who would just be there for me. Of course I have Tom. I'm extremely happy that… — Bill Kaulitz Copy Share Image
Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
So, I mean, there's still vast swaths of the city that are suffering from a lack of jobs and poor housing and… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
“But I do not think we can wait for painting. This place is dangerous for us. Perlain is already impatient with us.… — Emily Rodda Copy Share Image
Being a hungry artist, you don't have the luxury of buying whatever you want. There were years of me doing a lot… — Eric Nam Copy Share Image
I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible,… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“There was nothing particularly striking about them except that they were artists of the kind that talk. Everyone knows of the talking… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience. I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the… — Richard Tuttle Copy Share Image
“Every brush stroke on the canvas, every dab of color introduced, the fine textures impressed in the paint—this accumulation of many small… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an… — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
The job of an artist is to entertain and not get involved with politics. We give the people in the countries we… — Engelbert Humperdinck Copy Share Image
“What genuine painters do is to reveal the underlying psychological and spiritual conditions of their relationship to their world; thus in the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
“And health in art - what is that? It has nothing to do with a sane criticism of life. There is more… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, Fassbinder's films showed that with the help of art it is possible to defend oneself against the destructive forces… — Christian Braad Thomsen Copy Share Image
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image