“The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art. From the first imitative babble of a child… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the… — Joseph Raffael Copy Share Image
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
There are masses of people who need affordable housing in New York. I think that, politically, it is very difficult to give… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
We live in a world where art is always looked upon as the perfect medium. We live in a society where we… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Artists often have mental health issues. And their lifestyles are unstable because of all the travelling and the media commentary on their… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the objective world is as "secure and unshakeable" as it appears to our conscious minds. We should accept nothing as… — Kasimir Malevich Copy Share Image
The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons I think we are sometimes critical of support for the arts is that art — lyric art in… — Jan Zwicky Copy Share Image
“I wish I could draw you how I see you. I'd draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest… — Jasmine Warga Copy Share Image
“The one image I eventually found of Alexis St. Martin as a whole young man is in a painting by Dean Cornwell… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Don't talk to me about Matisse the European style of 1900, the tradition of the studio where the nude style woman reclines… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Art has the power to influence and to make you react to something that you normally wouldn't concern, worry, or even think… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“People take for granted what is in fact an art. To live well, to live comfortably by one’s own standards takes a… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to… — Thomas Hirschhorn Copy Share Image
Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Any change in my style depends on many things, but it's whatever fits the project. It's important to me to make style… — Eduardo Risso Copy Share Image
For me, it's always very beautiful that you can do something today in the 21st century which is not an imitation but… — Wolfgang Laib Copy Share Image
Well, it's pretty ironic to get an artist achievement award from the same foundation that disavowed one of my artistic achievements (that… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
Artists become fans of the writers and keep using them. But they don't really acknowledge them when they become big. It's about… — Naughty Boy Copy Share Image
My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
“We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but… — Osho Copy Share Image
One of the points where the art world is at its most metaphysical is in this weird aspect of the power of… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Kanye didn't sign me to hold my hand and walk me through my career. He signed me because he believed in me… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
It's not like I studied abroad, I went to school and university in New Delhi. So many people in India think of… — Manish Arora Copy Share Image
The arts have always been a huge part of my life and experience. The arts are where we get to reflect on… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
When you have a dream, you don't even want to tell yourself straight out that this is what you want. You try… — Rita Ackermann Copy Share Image
