This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas -… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Looking at younger artists, like Varda Caivano and Kerstin Bratsch, I see that their work has something in common that is new… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think younger artists are often "students" of the rock press. They have their favorite rock star interviews and know how they're… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
We have basic urges all the time. They just manifest themselves in different scenarios, and we have to turn those weaknesses into… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I believe artists are too focused on the younger crowd. Why would you want to focus on them? Let them do what… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
In fact I wonder if I should bend my own rules a little and for the sake of writing a good song… — The Rocket Summer Copy Share Image
The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
Push the envelope too far as a female artist, and you may only earn an ocean of ink expressing concern for your… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the… — Jack O'Connell Copy Share Image
“Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but… — Shaun Jeffrey Copy Share Image
It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to… — Blue Balliett Copy Share Image
“I can certainly throw out some observation about the process of creating which may be of use. Firstly, it's the best &… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
I want to create amazing art and content that inspires people to want to be the best versions of themselves everyday, and… — Rachele Brooke Smith Copy Share Image
What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It was a tribute to Raphael that lesser artists wanted to copy his work, but this… this was a travesty. The fresco… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart… — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a… — Teena Marie Copy Share Image
I'm not so interested in this series of ruptures, where minimalism took over pop art, and then neo-expressionism was a triumph over… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
My record, Evolution, is really about me evolving as an artist and trying a few new things. There's a song called, Road… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
As an artist, my wheelhouse is 19th-century literature. I want to write realist novels in a Victorian sense, and the writers I… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
“real artists can survive the most hostile environments and yet find their true calling like homing pigeons. That’s hogwash. Many real artists… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I paint and I sculpt and I enjoy doing things that aren't for the public. There's no pressure to it, it's just… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
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