What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring -… — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone brought such grace and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
As artists, we can help, visually and intellectually, to make people understand that, at some point, we have to accept that it… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
I think, as an artist, whether you're making people laugh or cry or be frustrated or excited - the fact that you're… — Elisha Cuthbert Copy Share Image
To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every artist has the song where they say, 'I wish I could have written a song as good as this,' but they… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop… — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
“The false democracy that places art and random uploads side by side has, I believe, led too many to believe that art… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, its perfect. You dont have to come… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others;… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
I try not to force my sound on everybody. I try to yield unto each artist and... I try to just support… — Greg Kurstin Copy Share Image
I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because,… — Arca Copy Share Image
The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
“An English visitor to Amsterdam in 1640 could not hide how impressed he was by what he saw. In the Low Countries,… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
[I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation], and eventually you find yourself in the room with the Radiant… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“(Rome) is a Metropolitan Museum of Art the size of Manhattan, no roof, no display cases, and half a million combustion engines… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my… — Peter Wright Copy Share Image
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I think culture and art tell you what the soul of a nation is, and if we continue to chip away at… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Klimt’s work is beautiful and painted with minute attention to detail; but looking at it, don’t you think there’s something kind of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's important to remind kids who obviously love writing and creating, that's it's going to be the most important part of what… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
I know some people are like "I'm depressed and I'm a struggling artist" and that really works for some people, but that… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted'… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
The music industry has changed drastically and that damages young artists. They don't have the same support system that we had. They… — Cliff Richard Copy Share Image
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“I make art for one person and one person only. And as soon as I find that one person, I sure hope… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Cooper looked at the house and tried to fix it in his mind like a painting that would never leave him. But… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My goal is to continue working with passionate, driven, artists who are willing to think out of the box, and to keep… — Nicholas Galitzine Copy Share Image
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