I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media?… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“Artists make art not because they have knowledge they want to "express" but because they want to discover or learn something through… — Daniel A. Siedell Copy Share Image
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Recognizing Pablo Picasso in a train compartment, a man inquired of the artist why he did not paint people “the way they… — Rosamund Stone Zander Copy Share Image
I was never exposed to art school. I grew up in an artist's studio. I was exposed a lot of studio time… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
I do feel that there are things you can learn from an artist, but I think you need to be very close… — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
Leon Golub was a painter. He was an artist struggling to make it in the New York City art world, but at… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share Image
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
“As an artist the nuance is your task . Your task is not to simplify. Even should you choose to write in… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That's what I called it at the time - the… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
[The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a… — Danny Lyon Copy Share Image
“[Medieval] Art was not just a static element in society, or even one which interacted with the various social groups. It was… — Conrad Rudolph Copy Share Image
“I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something… — Jean-François Lyotard Copy Share Image
The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Art is not made only one way, art is a point of view? Rembrandt in our days would be Rembrandt again, because… — Marianne von Werefkin Copy Share Image
The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
I wanna get into modeling a little bit, even acting. Just expanding myself as an artist because the music thing ain't forever,… — Kevin McCall Copy Share Image
To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I… — Mike Posner Copy Share Image
There's all this evidence that we leave now of our life, especially if you're a comedian or an entertainer. I mean, I… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
“Art has now done for Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow something they could never achieve in life: it has taken a shark-eyed… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence.… — Jørn Utzon Copy Share Image
“. . . no good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I think there is more creative freedom as a solo artist by far because you might get a group push back on… — Myka 9 Copy Share Image
I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
![“[The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a couple of vintage prints, they could have you do an ad, or give you a ribbon... In capitalist countries they reward artists because we're ineffectual.” quote by Danny Lyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df5/danny-lyon-41657_ads_the-people-who-run-things-are-so-success_416825.jpg)
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