An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels,… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My manager, my band members, we're all good friends. You need that because a lot of times an artist will be so… — Keith Whitley Copy Share Image
The artists catch what's in the air. It's not because the artist "felt like it" or is a guru who channels the… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions… — Jacques d'Amboise Copy Share Image
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“Michelangelo was aiming with his frescoes, we modestly suggest that if he had dared to give the giant artwork a title he… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is,… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“There are large and stately studios, panelled and high, in strong stone houses filled with gleaming brass and polished oak. There are… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
I think everything happens for a reason and all of my choices have led me up to my solo album and made… — Fergie Copy Share Image
I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is… — Mervyn Levy Copy Share Image
“In 1972, Bayber's work underwent another metamorphosis, yet refused to be defined by or adhere to any specific style. Elements of abstract… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I identify as being an independent artist. I think people often forget that Indie is actually short for independent. For me, the… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation, and there's this invariable, fascinating and rather sad situation of concentric… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me,… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“I’m making tiny pictures, on a canvas that is bigger than anyone can ever imagine. My tiny pictures seem to get lost… — Nanne Nyander Copy Share Image
As many have said before me, artists are creative people who can't be dragged into the politics of nations. I have always… — Mahira Khan Copy Share Image
If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and… — Dustin Yellin Copy Share Image
I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went… — Sean Combs Copy Share Image
In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
