“Good art is like a sexy pair of lips—it has the potential to say so much, but prefers to have you do… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“If the two meanings of 'heart' are 'center' and 'part,' then the word 'art' also forms a perplexing doubleness: it is something… — Brenda Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
Swag defines an artist, period. Lil Wayne has his super-tattooed pierces and dreads swag. Jay-Z has his New York, grown man, Beyonce… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
“Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable masks of black frock coat and veil,… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
Every step on my way to becoming an artist seemed preordained. The right people were always in the right places at the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
“And health in art - what is that? It has nothing to do with a sane criticism of life. There is more… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, Fassbinder's films showed that with the help of art it is possible to defend oneself against the destructive forces… — Christian Braad Thomsen Copy Share Image
“I found myself painting again. I hadn't toyed with it in years but it helped with the sadness. It was an outlet,… — Gideon Rathbone Copy Share Image
Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure… — Zelda Fichandler Copy Share Image
As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
“MAIN CHARACTERS Cesare Borgia (c. 1475–1507). Italian warrior, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, subject of Machiavelli’s The Prince, Leonardo employer. Donato… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
My cousin lives in Delhi, so I kept visiting the city and got really fascinated with DU. Apart from studies, one also… — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
“An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs.… — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
Don't try to buy art as an investment. Buy something you really love because you're going to have to look at it… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
So, I mean, there's still vast swaths of the city that are suffering from a lack of jobs and poor housing and… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
“But I do not think we can wait for painting. This place is dangerous for us. Perlain is already impatient with us.… — Emily Rodda Copy Share Image
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Because art does for me what religion does-- it organizes a seemingly chaotic world. Because it is my way of making sense… — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
“The thing about being an artist," Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, "is that there are… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
A creation made right after another. Each one made either by the neat strokes of an artist hand, or by the sloppy… — Music Copy Share Image
A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image