I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“A nation which neglects the perceptions of its artists declines. After a while it ceases to act, and merely survives. There is… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Shepard Fairey, the street artist responsible for President Obama's 'Hope' poster, is now facing vandalism charges in Detroit. It's pretty serious. Detroit… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
“It's been said that the role of the artist is to teach us to see and that's true. However, the role of… — Brooks Jensen Copy Share Image
There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
My grandma, Edith, was one of the greatest inspirations in my life, both personally and professionally. She was an incredibly talented artist… — Jennifer Meyer Copy Share Image
I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I… — Alison Sweeney Copy Share Image
Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“The painting was food. He wanted to caress it, hold it in his hands, lick its glazed surface, plunge into it, dive… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous,… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Pretty much any artist that I know of that has found that mentor status, if they're generous and okay to bestow a… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In a way, my paintings are like my children. They have many possibilities in life. You tell them, 'I believe that you're… — Norbert Bisky Copy Share Image
Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
I was lucky to work with some of the big names such as Anu Malik, Himesh Reshammiya, Sajid Wajid, Salim Sulaiman, Mithoon,… — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
Try to sing exactly like an artist you hear, and then all of the sudden, you'll feel what it feels like if… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The new Galliano will be even bigger and better... I love working, it's my therapy. I can draw until four in the… — John Galliano Copy Share Image
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I kind of had a quarter-life crisis before I did 'Rent.' I had done Glinda in 'Wicked' for a while. I had… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Art then becomes a safety valve for the expression of individual and collective neuroses originating in the inability of coping with the… — Luis Camnitzer Copy Share Image
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Artworks are especially good at helping our psyches in a variety of ways: they rebalance our moods, lend us hope, usher in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
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