In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I don't go to galleries every day because it's so rare that I like what I see. There's a lot of bad… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I think, for me, not to get too dark, my self-worth is very much wrapped up in my ability to be a… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I'm truly blessed to be doing what I've always wanted - CREATE. I have found a freedom that is hard to put… — Steve Kaufman Copy Share Image
What excites me and what I find most compelling is clearly not what excites other artists. It comes from my own idiosyncratic… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I keep things pretty loose. I'm always attracted to the artists that have a, like a really loose, kind of, human style,… — Noah Van Sciver Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I don't think art changes the world, because if it did then we'd live in a better world. But it can change… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York, I knew some painters older than myself. I was kind of the kid who was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
We're all busy. It's a very fast-paced world. And art - and by that, I mean culture in a wider sense -… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a… — David Salle Copy Share Image
One day a student asked Taiga, What is the most difficult part of painting? Taiga answered, The part of the paper where… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
The art world would have you believe that anything can be art. But, of course, there's actually many things that aren't art.… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I have a lot of art in the house, but it's mine, friends'. Not necessarily - like, I didn't spend thousands of… — Willie Cauley-Stein Copy Share Image
Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
“I am more aware of the world now, the tiny insignificant things especially. I am beginning to be more childlike. For an… — Thomas DeBaggio Copy Share Image
There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style,… — Shirley Conran Copy Share Image
“It is easier to recognize failures of technique rather than those of strategy or purpose, and simpler to ask "How do I… — Frank Chimero Copy Share Image
Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29,… — Jay Duplass Copy Share Image
The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“We were perfectly willing to go in there and rest, but it could not be done. It was only another delusion—a painting… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
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