I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is… — Jack Goody Copy Share Image
“I am an artist, my hair is rarely tamed & sometimes I sleep till noon, My house is messy and I speak… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Take two paintings by the same artist, one has a signature and the other doesn't. The signed picture is generally more valuable.… — Gavin Turk Copy Share Image
It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
I think now it's the money who tells the artist what to do - it's not the artist who tells the money… — Thierry Mugler Copy Share Image
The main difference between commissioned work and work I do for myself is that if I'm doing for myself, I don't have… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
First of all, as a professional, you can run around saying "artists, schmartists" as much as you want. But I'm a professional,… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
What I really love about the Bay area sound is that it's very unique and that's something I want to strive for,… — Saweetie Copy Share Image
“I wish I was a true artist as you so that I could find a way to tell you what you've become… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an… — Gage Taylor Copy Share Image
“Life may as properly be called an art as any other; and the great incidents in it are no more to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
I went to Havana, and I was like, "Wow, there's culture everywhere!" That was one thing that I did notice when I… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
“The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The beauty with comics - and also the risk - is it is a far smaller number of voices. It's the writer… — Eric Heisserer Copy Share Image
I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of… — Tomie dePaola Copy Share Image
I like to tell the artist what the song or album means to me, in detail. Then I let the artist run… — Rick DeJesus Copy Share Image
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I realized I couldn't get bookings as a performing artist on the road, as it were, I could not make a living… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
