Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
While it may be a really trying, weird time for the art world, I see good work all the time. If you… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
What I feel I can do is help people become aware of how pervasive and extensive the arts are, how they affect… — Joan Mondale Copy Share Image
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm a good guy at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people will believe what… — Lil Durk Copy Share Image
As I have continued to make music and progress as an artist, I think I am steadily getting better at expanding my… — Mike Stud Copy Share Image
'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we… — Adam Kluger Copy Share Image
“A true great artist at heart never ceases to create, continuously amazes and keeps sharing his gift despite barriers, judgement, fears and… — Elizabeth E. Castillo Copy Share Image
Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors.… — John Logan Copy Share Image
At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
When I did The Umbrella Academy, I studied Gabriel Bá's art. I said, "Oh, this is what he likes to do here.… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution,… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally… If you think of yourself in terms of… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Actually, we didn't tour that much back in the 70s because we had all these other artists under our hat. My touring… — Harry Wayne Casey Copy Share Image
There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural,… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
“Even when I’m caught off guard by a lathery shade of peach on the bottom corner of a painting at the Met,… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
My interest is in completing an image that is spectacular beyond belief. My fidelity is to the image and the art and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think there is a total equality for me between painting a literary figure or Kate Moss or my Mum or a… — Stella Vine Copy Share Image
What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time… — Maxine Powell Copy Share Image
“Art has two great functions. First, it provides an emotional experience. And then, if we have the courage of our own feelings,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them… — Nikky Finney Copy Share Image
I am an artist. For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image