As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure… — Zelda Fichandler Copy Share Image
The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
“I found myself painting again. I hadn't toyed with it in years but it helped with the sadness. It was an outlet,… — Gideon Rathbone Copy Share Image
A defining moment in my life was my first actual VMA performance… That was the first time in my head I said… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
“Good art is like a sexy pair of lips—it has the potential to say so much, but prefers to have you do… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable masks of black frock coat and veil,… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
“If the two meanings of 'heart' are 'center' and 'part,' then the word 'art' also forms a perplexing doubleness: it is something… — Brenda Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
Swag defines an artist, period. Lil Wayne has his super-tattooed pierces and dreads swag. Jay-Z has his New York, grown man, Beyonce… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Every step on my way to becoming an artist seemed preordained. The right people were always in the right places at the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Don't try to buy art as an investment. Buy something you really love because you're going to have to look at it… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs.… — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
“An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My cousin lives in Delhi, so I kept visiting the city and got really fascinated with DU. Apart from studies, one also… — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
“MAIN CHARACTERS Cesare Borgia (c. 1475–1507). Italian warrior, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, subject of Machiavelli’s The Prince, Leonardo employer. Donato… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a… — Ed Parker Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it… — Mona Hatoum Copy Share Image
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
“She knew better: when artistry seems most elusive is when you must focus, dig deep, and force yourself to think about how… — Maryanne O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's cool to see a bunch of brown kids in the crowd. I wanna be a brown artist that they look up… — Cuco Copy Share Image
The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
