It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29,… — Jay Duplass Copy Share Image
So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
A lot of people tell me that my paintings are sad-looking, but they're actually more pensive than sad. They're very colorful and… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Guston tacked toward celebrating the crap of life not for its own ironic sake, but as the ever-present still life that surrounds… — Ross Feld Copy Share Image
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of… — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
Music has always been a visual thing to me, so writing and drawing the 'Skin&Earth' comics, which tie cohesively with the music,… — Lights Copy Share Image
... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist,… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It falls apart now. They used to be intrinsically linked. Now they've been driven so far apart that I don't think the… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
Coming out of graduation, I didn't immediately know what direction I wanted to do so I decided to just stay as an… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
Always feeling secondary and just being a voice rather than known as the song writer and artist... it's been a challenge to… — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Man is really not freeing many aspects. He is dependent on his social circumstances, but he is free in his thinking, and… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
An artist doesn't depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn't depend on mood, certainly not if you're earning… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
I feel it's my social responsibility to shine a light on areas that don't get seen. My personal feeling is that it's… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something,… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“One way to look at a painting—and I use that word as shorthand for visual art in general—is to notice as you… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
“The dual ends of Arca's personality - he is both a press-shy introvert and, in his visual work, a bold exhibitionist -… — The New Yorker Copy Share Image
If you take a flower to Mars, for example, the hostility of Mars probably won't allow the flower to live without oxygen.… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
I think art world will have consolidated, I think it will slow down a little bit. I think it will be less… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
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