Obviously, when you finish something like 'White Collar,' there are so many opportunities to just do something similar because people want that… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so,… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
“She knew better: when artistry seems most elusive is when you must focus, dig deep, and force yourself to think about how… — Maryanne O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's cool to see a bunch of brown kids in the crowd. I wanna be a brown artist that they look up… — Cuco 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
When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ...… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
“All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously.… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives… — Jack Shadbolt Copy Share Image
I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Most comics are not truly rebellious or creatively free. Most comics, paintings, music, etc., are derivative of other, more successful works. And… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a… — Ed Parker Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it… — Mona Hatoum Copy Share Image
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Remember that an artist's life is an intense search for truth. This search takes many forms. Everyone of these forms demands its… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I got my own sound in Atlanta because I don't listen to anybody's music. When you listen to people's music, you start… — Gunna Copy Share Image
The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
“Ruskin says that anyone who expects perfection from a work of art knows nothing of works of art. This is an appealing… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“My eyes roved over the walls covered with my collages and prints of famous paintings. Magritte, Kandinsky, Kahlo. My origami shapes hung… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
If you're trying to learn how to collect art, the key is getting access to insider opinions, and we pride ourselves on… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
Art fairs are a lot like professional proms - you make contacts, have a lot to look at, and in some cases,… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A defining moment in my life was my first actual VMA performance… That was the first time in my head I said… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
