“The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.” — Linda Nochlin Copy Share Image
The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records.… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary art need not be overtly political in content; what is more important is that it demand a new means of perception… — Ann Daly Copy Share Image
As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio,… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
An artist strives to frame his ideals in an image; to challenge his audience and to make his vision immortal. But the… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
I obviously appreciate all the fans I gained from my band, but there weren't enough of them to make me a very… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
I've established myself as a proper artist. And it's ridiculous when anyone questions my credibility - I've had four number one singles… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“He saw the white paper as the great universe of nonexistence. A single stroke would give rise to existence within it. He… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing… — George Duke Copy Share Image
“You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think every artist, producer, believe's that it's going to happen at some point and time. You never want to just hear… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward… — Beatrice M. Hinkle Copy Share Image
Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to… — Richard Tuttle Copy Share Image
As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music… — Jay Park Copy Share Image
When you play to an audience, you come away energized. It's the promo that really breaks an artist. Some lad sitting on… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?] Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I'm one of those artists that people take my music without my consent. People love to snatch my music and do things… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness,… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Jive never saw any value in me as a long-term artist. Even as I was doing it they were like, 'You're not… — Too Short Copy Share Image
I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was… — Jody Watley Copy Share Image
Where I know I wanna go is being consistent on business, and that's just making another artist, my clothing line - capitalizing… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do… — Saif Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art.… — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I can… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor.… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness,… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
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