“Alice once told me artistry does not reside in motivation but rather stems from showing up, with the intent to be honest.… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Overall, working with 50 Cent was one of my favourite moments. I grew up, like most of us did, listening to his… — J. R. Ramirez Copy Share Image
All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and… — Nelly Copy Share Image
Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and… — Issey Miyake Copy Share Image
“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp… — Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto Copy Share Image
Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it… — Anthony Caro Copy Share Image
People who aren't known for being artists do come in for criticism when they exhibit pictures. Paul McCartney, Tony Curtis, Mo Mowlam's… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional… — Saul Steinberg Copy Share Image
Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and… — James Lafferty Copy Share Image
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That's what art is, he said, the story of a life in all its particularity. It's the only thing that really is… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
“The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth, for whom it is contra-indicated. But… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Certainly, 'creativity' has been a vital plank of New Labour strategy. It not only hands out money with the enthusiasm of a… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I think a lot of high-profile artists like to make people think that. 'Oh, I'm trying to choose my next project.' This… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Art is not for the personal satisfaction of one or the other, but art wants to return all what's in life... Art… — Bram van Velde Copy Share Image
Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I'm a drag artist, and we put so much effort into creating characters, so the easiest way to show us respect is… — Conchita Wurst Copy Share Image
“The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to posses, to go to something; loathing urges… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be an American today? The question of that is always pointing at now. It allows someone to… — Will Davis Copy Share Image
Artists used to argue about art for art's sake versus social realism etc, and now it's like the most dominate argument is… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
“Children need to see themselves in books. They need to see their gender. They need to see their color, hair texture, their… — Christian Robinson Copy Share Image
