I think the role of the artist today is about being provocative. I don't mean shocking, but you have to provoke people… — Mira Calix Copy Share Image
I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists,… — Adam Kluger Copy Share Image
Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“If you stand before a canvas, up close, almost to the point where your nose touches paint, you will see nothing but… — Pen Copy Share Image
I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations -… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax,… — Sunni Brown Copy Share Image
I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
I want to continue to do some great work. I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. I'm a diverse person… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As long as I have enough money for makeup artists, everything is okay. I feel young and very free. But one day,… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
Every person at a record company didn't want to be bothered with me because I was too smart. They knew if I… — L.C. Cooke Copy Share Image
When I was young I drew constantly in my sketchbooks to learn to see things. My first teacher in school, Gilbert Stone,… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of sincerity being something we have to be afraid of doing. We have to do the real stories now. The… — Patty Jenks Copy Share Image
The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
“In the canvas of the coming year, paint not just with colors of knowledge, but with the bold strokes of your inner… — Dr. Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I believe nature offers opportunities for connection, the arts offer opportunities for self-expression, and life offers continual opportunities for growth and self-discovery. — Bo Copy Share Image
“When he had finished placing the objects that would be a part of the portrait, the artist asked his subject, "Why do… — Edward Cline Copy Share Image
What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that I'm a consummate live artist. Album work is kind of just like quilt weaving or something. But live… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of… — Roberto Cavalli Copy Share Image
The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It's absolutely different. The whole situation… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
