I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals.… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the… — Norbert Lynton Copy Share Image
If I'm O.K., I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed on myself. Not physical ones, but those restrictive tabs on my inner… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is almost the biggest thing you have to deal with as an artist. That's why many artists crash and burn, because… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
No matter how many times people say I'm like this or that artist, it never sticks. Slowly but surely people are going… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
Me as an artist, I'm more notorious for writing songs that celebrate women, songs that are all about the positive element of… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
I liken all jobs to decorating. If you don't do the preparation, sand down and prime first, you won't get a good… — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art, and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that the baker had an honest response to the painting. Van Ruijven tried too hard when he looked… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
A lot of artists still will not get that far. And get that far and be as successful. So, it's a great… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer,… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in art and making things, but I chose not to go to art school because I thought I… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
I've had production offers with artists I really admire, and oftentimes that doesn't work out. Sometimes it does, but... For instance I… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
In volume and velocity, the new media are making available testimony on a previously unimaginable scale. I'm neither as romantic about the… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
“I end up standing in front of the nearby painting with my arms and legs open wide, flapping them around and doing… — Elle Casey Copy Share Image
Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure… — Del LaGrace Volcano Copy Share Image
The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It's disgusting. Why would people idolize someone who doesn’t do anything and saying you're a model/photographer with a digital camera and photoshop… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
I just hope I can continue to do work that matters to me, I’m not interested in being any kind of superstar… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings,… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oriental DreamWorks did a lot of the surfacing of the village [in Kung Fu Panda 3] and you know all the little… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“I know vaudeville isn't supposed to be art . It's supposed to be entertainment, which is different. But I think art...I think… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
I will never get tired of looking at works by Pablo Picasso. I will never get tired of looking at work by… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
I'm very picky about the kind of work that I do, and I'm fortunate to have been able to work with great… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible… — Lee Scott Copy Share Image
“I had a classmate who was very good at drawing. When ever he drew a face, he'd draw cross so that the… — Takeshi Obata Copy Share Image
I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me.… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A… — Josiah Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
![“Oriental DreamWorks did a lot of the surfacing of the village [in Kung Fu Panda 3] and you know all the little paintings on all the gables and everything? They have meaning, and they could do that because they know what that means, we don't necessarily know about that over here.” quote by Jennifer Yuh Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0c/jennifer-yuh-nelson-9435_artist_oriental-dreamworks-did-a-lot-of-the-sur_2469620.jpg)
