All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday,… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I continue to paint pictures from the corridor of life that few truly understand scattered words, broken voices, callused souls resting on… — Carl A Dixon Copy Share Image
If it weren't for Criminal Records, Wax-n-facts and other indie record stores I could have only sold my CD's at my shows… — Shawn Mullins Copy Share Image
... what is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything… — James Burton Copy Share Image
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
We have seen so many exhibits in recent years where the exhibition design was aesthetically beautiful. In this case, if someone wants… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when… — Elizabeth Grosz Copy Share Image
“Art is not alone in imparting charm and mystery to the most insignificant things; pain is endowed with the same power to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Art and culture are the greatest weapons against hate agendas, entrenched ideologies, and power structures that harbor and promote the business of… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“Art is love-times-love; the creator loves it and his audience adores it. To miss the sensation of loving art is to miss… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to -… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come… — PSY Copy Share Image
At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze."… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene now. Social media reflects the state of the world, so… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear… — Orlan Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“I can't help thinking of Jackson Pollock, who poured, splattered and lashed the canvass with strings of paint. His process was about… — Jocelyn Lieu Copy Share Image
What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image