After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer… — Harry S. Broudy Copy Share Image
I don't know Prince's music like the back of my hand, but I was always a fan of him as an artist… — Amine Copy Share Image
“To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Rank asked why the artist so often avoids clinical neurosis when he is so much a candidate for it because of his… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it… — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers,… — Raoul Hausmann Copy Share Image
I tick so many boxes. Thats why I get a lot of gigs - because I can do the lectures, I can… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
The earth doesn’t care where death occurs. ...It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
To this day, I've never had an assistant. I really insist on doing everything myself because I value the role of the… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn't come into… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
For centuries, the arts and philanthropists have worked well together: look at the Tate family and the Courtaulds. If you've been fortunate… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I found that the artist market was expanding in comics. Marvel was going from something like eight books a month to somewhere… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at… — Luther E. Vann Copy Share Image
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game,… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform… — Saul Steinberg Copy Share Image
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say,… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
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