The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Copy Share Image
My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I always say it takes three weeks to know a character and three months to own it. And I think that's probably… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
I remember one time in my junior year, in my art class, our teacher had us doing, like, finger paints, and I… — CC Sabathia Copy Share Image
“In the hierarchy, the artist faces outward. Meeting someone new he asks himself, What can this person do for me? How can… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their… — Thelma Houston Copy Share Image
I am not so bad, actually, at doing my own makeup, so for more low-key events, I'll do my own, but for… — Devon Windsor Copy Share Image
“Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Something may be a sort of fulfillment of yourself, and it may not be great to other people, but it is just… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
You don't own art. What does that mean? We are trustees of art. Art is in transit with us. That is why… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
“For indeed when painters themselves wish to represent sirens and satyrs [20] by means of especially bizarre forms, they surely cannot assign… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
So rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“Become a great artist. That is the only way to justify what you are doing to everyone's life.'... I did not understand… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I'm being totally honest, but I really do get chills every time I see something that I designed, painted on the biggest… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
“We were perfectly willing to go in there and rest, but it could not be done. It was only another delusion—a painting… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I am more aware of the world now, the tiny insignificant things especially. I am beginning to be more childlike. For an… — Thomas DeBaggio Copy Share Image
Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style,… — Shirley Conran Copy Share Image
“It is easier to recognize failures of technique rather than those of strategy or purpose, and simpler to ask "How do I… — Frank Chimero Copy Share Image
There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
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