I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me,… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
'm very conscious about how the viewing situation [of the Biennale] creates a situation for the viewer who feels pressured. I don't… — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
“Of course, figuring out what you like to work on doesn't mean you get to work on it. That's a separate question.… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I just started to understand my craft, what I wanted to do as an artist. It's just a growing process. Figuring out… — Young De Copy Share Image
“This is why Warhol is not part of the history of art. He is, quite simply, part of the world. He does… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“The search for this inner truth is the search for beauty. People whose vision does not penetrate beyond the narrow limits of… — Harold Speed Copy Share Image
I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
“Art is a kind of magic. Creativity is mysterious, even to artists, who might be able to name their inspiration but can't… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing that motivates me when I'm choosing a part is a role that will help me continue to… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor,… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, it was only through the dealer Fred Jahn that I succeeded in overcoming my reservation about the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could… — David Markson Copy Share Image
They asked us to draw pictures of what we thought men and women look like naked and so I was like, "Get… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
“An artist can’t choose between right and wrong. It can only be his art or death. Nothing else matters. Not family, not… — MURIELLE CYR Copy Share Image
The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
“all true art is in fact nothing but an attempt to transmit the sensation of ecstasy...evil always consists in the transforming of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Making art depends upon noticing things — things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter. Sooner or later, for instance, every visual… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is… — Wolfgang Laib Copy Share Image
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“The soft voice of a piccolo glided through the airy expanse of a small, brightly furnished room. A tall painter, dark locks… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Curator David Finley called his friend Edith Vanderbilt, who agreed to hide the nation’s most precious artworks—sixty-two paintings and seventeen sculptures—at the… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find… — Idris Khan Copy Share Image
When I say artist I don't meanin the narrow sense of the wordbut the man who is building thingscreating molding the earthwhether… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes… — James Nares Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
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