I always longed to have someone who would just be there for me. Of course I have Tom. I'm extremely happy that… — Bill Kaulitz Copy Share Image
The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“Recognize things when they are at their best, in their season, and know how to enjoy them then. The works of nature… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience. I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the… — Richard Tuttle Copy Share Image
My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
“There was nothing particularly striking about them except that they were artists of the kind that talk. Everyone knows of the talking… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an… — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
“Every brush stroke on the canvas, every dab of color introduced, the fine textures impressed in the paint—this accumulation of many small… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The job of an artist is to entertain and not get involved with politics. We give the people in the countries we… — Engelbert Humperdinck Copy Share Image
What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
“What genuine painters do is to reveal the underlying psychological and spiritual conditions of their relationship to their world; thus in the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
Being a hungry artist, you don't have the luxury of buying whatever you want. There were years of me doing a lot… — Eric Nam Copy Share Image
I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible,… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
I think everyone has a story to tell. Part of what I do is help artists find their voice, not only their… — Salaam Remi Copy Share Image
“ And as an artist, as someone who writes stories and tries to make words into beautiful forms, it's vitally important to… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA… — Vivian Campbell Copy Share Image
There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want… — Beck Copy Share Image
I started blogging because I didn't know if I wanted to be an artist. I wanted to talk to other people online… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever… — George Brecht Copy Share Image
In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“If we limit ourselves to painting as an example, both for brevity’s sake and because in that field my ignorance is slightly… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting,… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it,… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
I'm one of those artists who, if you'd let me tweak, would probably keep going and going, so it comes to the… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing… — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I had to find the courage to share not only myself but my art with the world. I faced fear, and I… — Alyssa Edwards Copy Share Image
I remember the first time my friend Colin Lewis, who used to be a judge with me on a show on MuchMusic… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
