I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
“if I was a painter, and was to paint the American Eagle, how should I do it?...I should want to draw it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear,… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic… — Alessandro Michele Copy Share Image
Every time I put a collection together I'd scrap it because there was no "meaning," until I wrote about the two black… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
As for Aamir Khan, he keeps raising the standard with every film. For an artist like me or a newcomer like me,… — Tiger Shroff Copy Share Image
I don't really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is an existing model that anyone can hold on to right now. Every [piece of] advice about… — Olof Arnalds Copy Share Image
“may occasionally pay lip-service to their value, but it ultimately has no real use for artists, dancers, poets, self-sufficient farmers, tree lovers,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“In a hundred years they may both be sciences. Fine. But today a person who learns the rules of art well is… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I always knew I was going to be an artist. It was a done deal right from when I was very little.… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body… — Karl Buhler Copy Share Image
The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art.… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s the rogue in me, the part of me that loves to color outside the lines, but the truth is, I… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The further art advances the closer it approaches science," said Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and inventor of the wheelbarrow,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
My dad went to art school when I was one. They scraped and continued scraping, because artists, as we all know, don't… — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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