“The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Artists talk about art in sort of straightforward terms, more like the way you talk about plumbing fixtures. Does it function well?… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“On the great canvas of time We all create our own masterpiece. Choreographing our steps across minutes and hours Dancing over the… — Michele Jennae Copy Share Image
Maybe nothing is art”, maybe everything is or could be art. To that, no doubt she would have responded like she did… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that art has often judged the judges,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“By "Suprematism" I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world… — Kasimir Malevich Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing you can do is to keep drawing no matter what. And to not be afraid of… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey,… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Everybody has problems. Just because you're an artist or an entertainer, it doesn't mean you don't live a regular lifestyle. You still… — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
it seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I'm afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I… — Matt Schulze Copy Share Image
“Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
“I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting… — Niklas Luhmann Copy Share Image
“And something else, of course; there’s always more, deep in art’s pockets, far down in the chiaroscuro on which these foodstuffs rest:… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it… — Sante D'Orazio Copy Share Image
I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“I don't think painters have the answers about a painting except the painting itself. Anyway, a painting has to have some kind… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
“Those seeking political and economic change should consider embracing art. Part of our role as citizens is to look more closely at… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
There's the obvious shift in the tech industry. I'm not really politicized about the whole thing, but it's definitely clear that rent… — Mikal Cronin Copy Share Image
If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made… — Van Deren Coke Copy Share Image
“Why do you paint, Akram?” I asked. “What—” “Close your eyes, Sebastian,” he said, stopping me. “Just for a minute, close them… — Ahmad Ardalan Copy Share Image
Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
The people who truly love you don't try to paint you with their brushes & colours. Instead they make you hold the… — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is the music of the youth. It sort of has the same purpose as what we do, at least lyrically, because… — Amadou Bagayoko Copy Share Image
'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
If we actually love what we're doing and we go and do what we love, and every day we get up because… — Kerry Stokes Copy Share Image
My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the… — Steve Olson Copy Share Image