No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
As an artist, you're just observing the world around you. So much is overwhelming and it's all so inescapable that it can't… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please… — Ali Akbar Khan Copy Share Image
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Does this raise or lower, then, the everyday importance of art? Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended,… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain… — Marcel Dzama Copy Share Image
Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Look it - you start out as an artist, I started out when I was nineteen, and you’re full of defenses. You… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I teach a graduate photo seminar at Yale, and I sometimes feel so overwhelmed by the task the students set before themselves… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance… — Wayne McGregor Copy Share Image
When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
That's what [Frank] Sinatra did. He was the first artist to come out in a major way against anti-Semitism and racial bigotry.… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
“After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis,… — Ambroise Vollard Copy Share Image
Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long. You may think you’ve lost your… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Some cultures don't have a separate word for music and dance. To my knowledge, this notion of listening to music without dancing… — RJD2 Copy Share Image
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
“I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Growing up in a traditional environment, I was taught the importance of art, how it's connected to the soul, how it makes… — Michael Horse Copy Share Image
Beyonce is such a visual artist. This was just trying to figure out another side to her that could be fun and… — Bryce Wilson Copy Share Image
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
I think, for every artist, the second album is the most terrifying one to put out because it can either boost your… — Thomas Rhett Copy Share Image
I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is… — Paterson Ewen Copy Share Image
Music is what is going to save me," "On the bad days, when I have to look at the cold, hard facts… — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for… — L. S. Lowry Copy Share Image
It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol… — Gregory Isaacs Copy Share Image
I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
![“That's what [Frank] Sinatra did. He was the first artist to come out in a major way against anti-Semitism and racial bigotry. And those are huge things back in the 50s and 60s and 70s - and he was doing this in the 40s.” quote by Robert Davi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ab/robert-davi-17031_anti-semitism_that-s-what-frank-sinatra-did-he-was-the_2959686.jpg)
![“[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.” quote by Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b57/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_aesthetics_i-m-concerned-with-aesthetics-and-this-i_2453902.jpg)
