If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and… — Miguel Copy Share Image
I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say 'Do whatever you want.' Such permission… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I had seen "Force Majeure" and I just love that movie so much. And I really wanted to artistically give a little… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
I never knew what my role in art was, because I was such a deep appreciator and such a passionate appreciator. But… — Alexa Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life,… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
“Picasso’s eclecticism signifies the deliberate destruction of the unity of the personality; his imitations are protests against the cult of originality; his… — Arnold Hauser Copy Share Image
I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in… — Jack Waters Copy Share Image
The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I'm very tolerant of other art and other artists. But what I truly appreciate, what I truly admire in contemporary art, is… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
I think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
The audience will find the artist who matches their interests. If you're not being true to yourself, your audience can't find you,… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider… — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
I always talk about if you want to be an artist, you have to be authentic because people can tell bullshit a… — Janina Gavankar Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times, artists and albums can become formulaic. You're known for a certain thing, and you continue to… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
“When art as an expression starts to appear, without prompting, all over the suburbs and villages of this country, what we are… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I'm a recording artist who's traveled around the world so I have different opportunities than other people and people may decide how… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
“... I find myself most drawn to: art that has arisen from a deeply personal conversation between the artist and the work… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this… — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking,… — Kristen Wiig Copy Share Image
Artmaking involves skills that can be learned. . . In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing.… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
My week is full-tilt boogie. I wake up every morning, and the singular thought in my head is that maybe today is… — Lyor Cohen Copy Share Image
To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's… — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great… — Brother Ali Copy Share Image
You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director.… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“Like all paintings, the portrait was ruined at the first stroke of paint; it would never be exactly as she had imagined… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
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