In Bergman's world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up... and this will continue until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy,… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
...the daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process… — Louis Daguerre Copy Share Image
It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness… — Sridevi Copy Share Image
Once something gets noticed and people love you, most of the makers want to put you in the same bracket, feeling this… — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
I am not a person who just wants to be an actor. Do you know what I mean? I am an artist… — Russell Hornsby Copy Share Image
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“And yes—scholars might care about the innovative brushwork and use of light, the historical influence and the unique significance in Dutch art.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do… — John Romita, Sr Copy Share Image
It's a tough pill to swallow, but if I was going to stand for something as an artist, and every time that… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth.… — Lily Yeh Copy Share Image
I love a lot of the young, new artists who are coming up, including Adele. I suppose anybody would freak out to… — Dave Koz Copy Share Image
It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in… — Cara Santana Copy Share Image
Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the… — Usher Copy Share Image
Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
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