What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“Curator David Finley called his friend Edith Vanderbilt, who agreed to hide the nation’s most precious artworks—sixty-two paintings and seventeen sculptures—at the… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is… — Wolfgang Laib Copy Share Image
“The soft voice of a piccolo glided through the airy expanse of a small, brightly furnished room. A tall painter, dark locks… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
When I say artist I don't meanin the narrow sense of the wordbut the man who is building thingscreating molding the earthwhether… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find… — Idris Khan Copy Share Image
It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes… — James Nares Copy Share Image
When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Obviously, when you finish something like 'White Collar,' there are so many opportunities to just do something similar because people want that… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so,… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July… — John Constable Copy Share Image
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
They asked us to draw pictures of what we thought men and women look like naked and so I was like, "Get… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could… — David Markson Copy Share Image
“An artist can’t choose between right and wrong. It can only be his art or death. Nothing else matters. Not family, not… — MURIELLE CYR Copy Share Image
In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
“all true art is in fact nothing but an attempt to transmit the sensation of ecstasy...evil always consists in the transforming of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Making art depends upon noticing things — things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter. Sooner or later, for instance, every visual… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody… — John Currin Copy Share Image
“Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and… — Shannon Taylor Hodnett Copy Share Image
I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I felt so nourished by the process of making [Moana], of you're always engaged with other artists from different disciplines, and it's… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward,… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
When I was asked if I wanted to perform on the Grand Ole Opry, I yelled, 'Are you kidding me?' I've been… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“The artist has been kind to me,” she said softly, not looking at him. “The artist drew what he saw. What he… — Tamera Alexander Copy Share Image
“Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
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