Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore,… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
There was so much going on. I remember a very interesting dinner in the studio of [Robert] Rauschenberg. He had convinced Sidney… — Erro Copy Share Image
[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think white artists have a responsibility to be not only naming white supremacy, but to be using their power and privilege… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
People who are artists, they want their music, their art, their acting craft to get out. And once it's appreciated, that seems… — Michael Wright Copy Share Image
It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis.… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know. .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
Kids would come up to me after concerts and give me drawings they've made of violins or, you know, landscapes with a… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them… — Paul Oakenfold Copy Share Image
“BECOMING AN ARTIST IS A RECKLESS ACT OF INSANITY. BUT, IF I MAY QUOTE A PLAY THAT I THINK MIGHT BE A… — Dana Schwartz Copy Share Image
I am making art. It's not a job that you've gotta show up to and fill in your slot. This is a… — El-P Copy Share Image
This is business: they don't care about your lyrics; The better you sell, the better future for their children. Controversy sells, so… — Cormega Copy Share Image
If you were going through your attic and found a Van Gogh, what would you do? You wouldn't put it in your… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
“I find your inner artist and get your best work out of you by nurturing it and you. I do not try… — Gay Walley Copy Share Image
Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
“But usually not. Usually she thinks of the path to his house, whether deer had eaten the tops of the fiddleheads, why… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“To return to the moment of radical innocence. To paint. To stretch canvas. To find the point of originality. It wasn't a… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I've been approached about doing some live performance collaborations with DJ's. That is something I'd be interested in getting into down the… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
I'm glad to say I'm experiencing more of a conversation in my artistic workforce world than I ever have before. But it's… — Jessie Mueller Copy Share Image
People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
“But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Astor had long held that artists of any ilk - painters, authors, actors and the like - merit no recognition unless… — Paula Cohen Copy Share Image
![“There was so much going on. I remember a very interesting dinner in the studio of [Robert] Rauschenberg. He had convinced Sidney Janis, Leo Castelli, and a third big gallery man to serve us, the artists, at the table. So they were dressed up as waiters, we were sitting at the table, and they were…” quote by Erro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc3/erro-39704_artist_there-was-so-much-going-on-i-remember-a_3025397.jpg)
![“[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.” quote by Woody Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/159/woody-allen-176_art_stanley-kubrick-was-a-great-artist-and-a_432976.jpg)
