The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“She noticed the lemony yellow light in her dream and heard nothing of her alarm clock so continued to dream and dreamt… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
I never liked the whole thing about pictures with the artists. You look back at an Elvis Presley record, and you don't… — Chris Blackwell Copy Share Image
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style… — Peter Schmidt Copy Share Image
Whatever you do as an artist, people have to have an experience. It's not about the details or the wrong note or… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
As they say, real legends never die. Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved… — Annie Ilonzeh Copy Share Image
The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Only those who commit to following their own artistic path can look back and see this issue in clear perspective: the real… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“I'd be looking at some stony sculpture Michelangelo would have killed his grandmother to be able to do, and thinking, I don't… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians,… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Even if the world outside is destroying itself and fragmented and paranoid and fearful, the job of the artist is to embrace… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Its also insane to me that people can expect an artist to not be prone to the same fluctuations in emotion and… — Gabe Saporta Copy Share Image
The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty… — Nigel Tomm Copy Share Image
Beautiful, Gorgeous, I ain't tryna buy your time, I can't afford it. What I'm tryna do is paint a pretty portrait. Me… — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or… — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white… — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
Always have clear lines of communication and be open to trying new ideas. Being open to new ideas is crucial to growing… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
“Analysis should release an experience that grips us or falls upon us as from above, an experience that has substance and body… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“I’ll go to church if you cut my hair tomorrow. But then you have to let me paint your portrait sometime.” “You… — Suzanne Young Copy Share Image
Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
What I mean is I'd rather be a Burt Bacharach figure, where if I did gigs there'd be other people there singing… — Nick Heyward Copy Share Image
I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another… — Vija Celmins Copy Share Image
Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist...… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
