“only the emperor among three hundred millions is allowed to use vermilion ink. Imagine that. If Queen Victoria said, ‘From now on,… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
As an artist, it's incredible to see folks see you and then be able to give that back and to be able… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create… — Jon Favreau Copy Share Image
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Works of art are like a Trojan horse. Under the surface is always some artist's deeply held philosophy on their view of… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
I met Kaz in the mid 1980s when we invited him and other artists to the Ojai Foundation with Thich Nhat Hanh.… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
In your works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on… — Roberto Burle Marx Copy Share Image
The light is really the most important thing, so if you don't have skylights and if you don't have north light, this… — Pierre Coupey Copy Share Image
The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I feel like, paying homage to an artist, it's better to do something that's inspired by them - a new work that's… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Art is sexless; - good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it. ... Ah,… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite… — Michael Ironside Copy Share Image
I try to write into the heart of experience. Then, through the experience of the writing, that heart reveals itself to me.… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
“A tender smile softened his face. "That would be Esme. She's nine and a delight. I haven't seen much of her these… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
I don't understand why anyone would collect my work. Please understand... it's like writing Our House. It took me an hour, it… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
It's quite liberating to get to a certain age, 'cos you're not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I'm just gonna make art myself. I have a lot of ideas of things I wanna do and really talented people and… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
Some things I won't do for any amount of money. That's so demoralizing and goes against every principle that I hold. It's… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal.… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a… — Michael Schwab Copy Share Image
I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
It's a social media time, where you have YouTube and everything it's kind of like you see my career grow up on… — Young De Copy Share Image
Anything that exposes the arts more, that gives us an outlet to make money and also do what we enjoy doing as… — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality… — Paul Signac Copy Share Image
Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I think art must be tough! I think art has to be hard. I don't think it should be easy. I think… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on… — Sir Mix-a-Lot Copy Share Image
I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
![“I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are not my favorite. I didn't really become familiar with her work until after I started writing the book, but the more I learned about her the more I admired her.” quote by Liza Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/liza-campbell-17930_book_i-was-only-loosely-aware-of-georgia-o-ke_853884.jpg)
![“I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art ... in my case, life is always struggling to predominate and art naturally suffers.” quote by Tina Modotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ae/tina-modotti-45202_art_i-cannot-as-you-edward-weston-once-propo_3080055.jpg)
