It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards,… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
On September 11, 2015, only hours before my mother passed away, I learned that the man I planned to build a life… — Jenifer Lewis Copy Share Image
It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years,… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
There's a new Mozart, a new Miles Davis, a new Misty Copeland, a new Matisse potentially languishing in a math class somewhere.… — Renee Elise Goldsberry Copy Share Image
My theory is that if I can stay present in the moment in my life as frequent as possible the artwork will… — Ruston Kelly Copy Share Image
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The more you work, the less you exist. I believe (at least, I used to believe, because I no longer think this… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
“When people try to destroy art or thought... it makes all forms of art and thought valuable. It's a slippery slope once… — Michael Poore Copy Share Image
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
This is so cool," I said loudly as Dad walked away. "Have you met the tattoo artist? Is he hot?" "He's a… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always… — Emily Rios Copy Share Image
“Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work. That might lead to more… — Jillian Mayer Copy Share Image
A primary function of art andthought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I'm always open to questions asked, and it will be up to me at that moment to decide if I want to… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't… — Troy Garity Copy Share Image
There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel that one of the roles of the artist, in the way I define it, is that I need to be… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
Merely knowing your craft will never be enough to make a picture. If you ever amount to anything at all, it will… — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“There is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there… — John Berger Copy Share Image
When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages.… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
“Don't spoil him. Don't try to influence him. Your influence would be bad. The world is wide and has many marvellous people… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think the best way to listen to my music is through recording. I would love to be one of those artists… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
“Never withhold your art from the world. It may hold the power to heal a heart or be the gift someone has… — Joy E. DeKok Copy Share Image
It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever… — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders.… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I listened to a lot of Amy Winehouse: her albums 'Frank' and 'Back to Black'. She was such an incredible artist. She… — Daya Copy Share Image
Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
