This is the personal side of things. When I started going through some of those transitions in my mind, just as a… — Fernando Mastrangelo Copy Share Image
One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“Life is art, Joe. Living is artistry. What we do, you and me, is artifice, but if it is artfully done, then… — David Krae Copy Share Image
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“TERMS AND CONDITIONS Sketches and Comps Fee quoted includes ____ preliminary concepts / sketches; additional concepts / sketches are $ _______ each.… — Eva Doman Bruck Copy Share Image
When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The bottom-line, you just have to. You do it because you want to do it and need to do it. You live… — J. Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Art is pleasurable, and that adds value to life. It’s also inspirational and influential. It isn’t the same thing as being the… — Nicole Ciacchella Copy Share Image
“Frustrated with drawing, I switched to the printmaking department, where I overturned great buckets of ink. After trying my hand at sculpture,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Firstly, I am not a comedian. I have a sense of doing comedy but I am a character artist. If the character… — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist… — Brenda Lee Copy Share Image
Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
“Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human… — Carl William Brown Copy Share Image
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The painter stood entranced before the work which he hadwrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, This is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Here, in Lorrain's poisoned little jewel of a tale (“The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate achievement of decadent art is… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
I started in the late 70s, beginning of the 80s, and I think I started to sing and make music as a… — Mari Boine Copy Share Image
I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through… — Myfanwy Pavelic Copy Share Image
Graffiti is a lot easier than the canvas actually, because it's such a large format, so when you're going to such a… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound… — Plato Copy Share Image
If I did a Rock record, it would be equally as truthful because I love Rock. I had to actually sing to… — Estelle Copy Share Image
As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I guess artists are living inspiration. There's something very pure about a person that fantasizes. I like hearing their stories, watching them… — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
