The so-called "secondary market" has also always been something that I'm comfortable with. I'm not a dealer who turns his nose up… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks...… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
When I started thinking about it, I was like, 'OK, if throughout time I get labeled as a conscious artist, I'll be… — Common Copy Share Image
I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
As an introvert, you have to spend a lot of time with me and then little bits of my personality will come… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
The life of an artist is always reproving what you can do, and I feel like there is still so much more… — Lynn Whitfield Copy Share Image
Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature,… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little.… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo Copy Share Image
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself.… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
I thought there was a way of marrying what I wanted to do with filmmaking with pop videos, which I found out… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
If you’re convinced as an artist of what you’re doing the only move is to, no matter what people say or what… — Zedd Copy Share Image
“do they not tell us more of the real spirit of the Italian Renaissance, of the dream of Savonarola and of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Whether you dance, draw, make music, shoot field goals, build houses, tune engines, or sit around all day watching television, you are… — Scott Edmund Miller Copy Share Image
I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“Pam was a struggling artist who made everyone's life difficult. She only wore black and after becoming acquainted with her I couldn't… — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think, ultimately, the problem with something like this is that you actually have so many more opportunities to say something than… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
“You know, a carving, especially if it’s polychrome, is not meant to move. These faces, these half-bodies, when you animate them, they’re… — Jacques Yonnet Copy Share Image
“Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous,… — Nick Paumgarten Copy Share Image
