I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
It was a choice between a paint factory in Indianapolis - a management training program to maybe run the paint factory one… — Dara Khosrowshahi Copy Share Image
We think it hugely important to support young artists, there is a war against that kind of artistry, that kind of creation...When… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I enjoyed cross-country road trips. And I found the work challenging because it was art that existed on the land rather than… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others… — Horace Copy Share Image
If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what’s usually in the… — Robert Mangold Copy Share Image
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike Copy Share Image
You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I feel irrational so confrontational to tell the truth I am getting away with murder it isn't possible to never tell the… — Papa Roach Copy Share Image
Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Merely to see... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through… — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Art provides us with clues about how to live our lives more fully...about how creating, collecting, and even just appreciating art can… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I wasn't artistic in drawing or painting, but I think I am artistic in sport. I think I'm always looking for the… — Robin Van Persie Copy Share Image
I like art; if I could just draw pictures all day, I would, but I can't; I'm horrible. I practiced at it,… — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
