I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles...… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I feel like every artist has a place in their mind, this place where they exist artistically. And I just want to… — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“Art is a social object, books and films and records and television shows, they’re social objects that bring people together in conversation.… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
I think traditional media is vitally important, I think there are a lot of benefits to working in traditional media, and I… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I believe that even an airport can be an inspiring place for an artist. A Nobel Prize laureate once said something along… — Isa Genzken Copy Share Image
For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me,… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see. Get so you can draw anything… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“An artist’s job was not to give aesthetic pleasure—designers could do that; it was to step back from the world and attempt… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
People don't really want to hear me say this, but a black person who will give a million dollars to the Museum… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go for those with… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different… — Alex Scally Copy Share Image
Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if… — Enrico Caruso Copy Share Image
“We cross paths with human beings moment by moment and seldom stop to marvel at these feeling, thinking, acting, doing, creating, capable-of-loving… — Tim Hast Copy Share Image
The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
“Pursuing an artistic existence can let you experience emotions you wouldn’t know otherwise. It gives you hope and helps you see the… — Pantelis Kassotis Copy Share Image
The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never… — Augustus John Copy Share Image
If talking about arts means being pretentious, a bit like being a wine critic, then I don't feel comfy with that. You… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist.… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The artist who is too sensitive for contacts with the non-artistic world is thereby too sensitive for his vocation, and fit only… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary,… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I realized that I could have been in galleries much sooner. I just needed to get past the fear of rejection. I… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
I'm very much into collaboration. I think that collaboration is the road to making something great. I respect artists that are more… — Tamaryn Copy Share Image
“The visible action is not the self-manifestation of the inward life, but only a weak and crude attempt of a single thread… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?'… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Without intermediate artists, music is what "American Idol" decides is great or made by the very poor, because Sharon Osbourne's made everything… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance,… — John Cena Copy Share Image
