What does it mean to be an American today? The question of that is always pointing at now. It allows someone to… — Will Davis Copy Share Image
Much of our lives involves the word “no.” In school we are mostly told, “Don't do it this way. Do it that… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a collaboration with an Ellie Goulding or a female English artist - Laura Marling or something. Somebody cool… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
Having more curators to go around among the artists is more effective and more efficient. The artists are better looked after so… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
“Yet, to view the Sistine primarily as a self-portrait doesn’t ring totally true. In spite of his arrogance regarding his artistic skill,… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
As much as we think we are as artists, we think, oh, you know, we're going to do this, we're going to… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
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Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
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It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work,… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
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The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
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I have mixed feelings about Napster. I like what it can do for an unsigned band. It can help them sell 10,000… — Shaggy Copy Share Image
When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know if that's new, but it has become very official over the past 25 or 30 years - and today… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Even if so inclined, an artist has no business to marry. For a man, it may be well enough, but for a… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I was shaped in college into a performance artist. I never really thought of myself as being one singular thing. I think… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
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“Good” can be a stifling word, a word that makes you hesitate and stare at a blank page and second-guess yourself and… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
I don't know any artists or painters, like, "Oh that painting group." I want to write down this idea of a group… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Nature is so huge. I mean, you can't even look one way! Everything is huge. That was my natural instinct, to create… — Willie Herron Copy Share Image
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