“After history, which I occasionally enjoy, and French, which I tres don't, I have double art. The art studio hasn't been changed… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best… — Janice Tanton Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
The worst frame of mind to be in is what the fans like or what the fans want, because then you lose… — BeBe Zahara Benet Copy Share Image
The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it,… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
what was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not… — Nayantara Sahgal Copy Share Image
Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judged. There are days where you can do… — Kelly Reilly Copy Share Image
“It is not difficult to be alone if you are poor and a failure. An artist is always alone – if he… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer.… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
I think that there was a fad where everyone said, 'I want you to create a signature step for my artist.' The… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
I really want to be associated with great projects and character driven projects and films. I have to feed my soul, and… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
I think at one point, a whole new younger generation of critics come in and they're really aware of zeitgeist in their… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Show me a man who over-elaborates and I will show you a great man! What is called their 'overelaboration' is my meat:… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I don't want to be hubristic about art's possibilities. I don't think that art has a causal relationship to revolution. I do… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in… — Fred Schepisi Copy Share Image
Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn't just a one-way conversation with the police… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp.… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
A real good artist is basically a grown-up kid, who never kills the kid. What we call being an adult is basically… — Quentin Dupieux Copy Share Image
Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
It's such a changing industry, and I realize that it's become more digital- and singles-driven, but I still love listening to a… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story… — Erro Copy Share Image
There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Maybe an artist's position in society is different today because it's more individualistic. You're not a direct servant anymore to the patron-you're… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
