“The superellipse — also common in Hermann Zapf’s lettering for book covers — can feel dated, perhaps because it brings to mind… — Stephen Coles Copy Share Image
“These artists pay little attention to an encircling present that bears no direct relation to the world of work in which they… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things… — Leo Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
It's hard to come across someone who can look past an artist who is larger and just see them for the talent… — Kelly Price Copy Share Image
“If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages I try to constantly get across… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Both my parents and sister are visual artists. That skipped me over completely. I can't draw a straight line. I've found other… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
“I really wanted to get into this art school about two years before I started working at the Grille. I applied and… — Alice J. Wisler Copy Share Image
My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
“I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
All the things that served me as a musician serve me as a cook. Being an artist is about communicating something deep… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you can see a thing you don't have anymore it's very heartbreaking. To hold onto things longer than we actually can… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I have no artistic training - as you might have guessed from all the stick figures! - and there are a few… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him -… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens to all… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't watch cinema. They can't afford movie tickets, they can't go to theatres to watch cinema, they are… — Koena Mitra Copy Share Image
The main purpose of my work is to appear in the mass media. It's not so much that I want my pictures… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“While it is true that these arts employ what are, to us, highly difficult technical disciplines, it is always recognized that they… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
Art pulls a community together... Art makes you feel differently. That's what artists are doing all the time, shifting and changing the… — Lister Sinclair Copy Share Image
There is a good deal of art that in some traditions of conceptual work are anti-affect, in fact a very large chunk… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
That period, doing 'Angels in America' in '94 and then filming with 'Basquiat' in '95, those were gateway years for me as… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists that return to the same subject. Whether it's the natural subject, or the focus or the… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there.… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image