You can filter certain stuff - it depends what artist you are - but you're never going to be true to yourself… — Stefflon Don Copy Share Image
The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better.… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Being a musician and artist can feel superficial at times - you talk about yourself every day and pose for photos for… — Yuna Copy Share Image
We relate to Leonardo da Vinci because his genius was just being passionately curious about everything. He wanted to know everything he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
“Funny how we do not realize the true value and legacy of a living icon until they suddenly pass away. Truth is,… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
I believe your success is based off what your goals are. Are you trying to feed your family or have plaques on… — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
For me, between "Reference" and "Sketching & Conceptualizing" is the "Get the Hell Out of the Studio" step. I most often NEED… — Jeff Fisher Copy Share Image
I am a lifelong career artist, which itself is a bit of a miracle. It's really challenging to be a career artist.… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
I think the narcissism comes from the industry side of things. The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I think it's quite obvious my work is made by a woman, because I have never wanted to make anything that is… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion's… — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. I said that… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day… — John Cage Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why… — Boris Vallejo Copy Share Image
I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“We have lived for too long with the arts as the pretty bit around the edge with the reality as a non-artistic… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
