“You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you -… — Rilke Letters to a Young Poet Copy Share Image
“The concern is that the images to be devised won't be sufficiently upsetting: not concrete, not detailed enough. Pity can entail a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world.… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
Patronage is a very old phenomenon that's occurred in people and in society for thousands of years. It stems from an emotional… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using… — Galina Vishnevskaya Copy Share Image
“James believed in the power of art, not because he thought it would change the world or because he imagined it could… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the… — Bruce Hutchison Copy Share Image
I don't like being under someone elses thumb. I'm very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I also got encouragement from my teachers at primary school but one person in particular who had a significant impact on my… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“Everything in the universe is a work of art. Every living creature a story. You should hang out in a museum or… — C. L. Currie Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before,… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting,… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was… — Cynthia Lennon Copy Share Image
All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism,… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
“The art of one's own time tends to be formidable . . . because we have to learn how and where to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I tried to exploit such freedom to create those drawings like if I was a boy. I tried to draw with that… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion.… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in… — Alison Mosshart Copy Share Image
I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anything that… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised,… — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his… — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
At any rate, when I began photographing myself, I could place myself in poses that had not been investigated by other artists.… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
“In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this religious feeling and keep it alive… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
You cannot just be the feature act, not that that's a bad thing, because that's a good thing, especially nowadays. But as… — MO Copy Share Image
The real artists are ultimately people who don't consider their audience and are almost incapable of considering their audience. They can do… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
