The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
In the back of every painting there's an entire universe that makes it possible for the painting to be there: an army… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind… — David Rasche Copy Share Image
To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I paint because I love to paint. If someone buys the prints or whatever, so be it, but it's not my main… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more… — Donald Kuspit Copy Share Image
I embrace the middle ground, because curiously it has more edge to it than the cutting edge. It has been a weirdly… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever.… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
When I introduce you to somebody, his name is Big Pun. When I introduce you to somebody, his name is DJ Khaled.… — Fat Joe Copy Share Image
The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions.… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography.… — Rondal Partridge Copy Share Image
Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people,… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
I get ticked off a lot because I don't think she [Faith Hill] gets the respect she deserves. I tell her all… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs.… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are… — John Berger Copy Share Image
You can looking at that glass of water, not as a glass of water, but as paint on a two-dimensional surface. It's… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
To show a different side on 'Love & Hip Hop' and bring some validity to it and not just be ratchet, messy… — Omarion Copy Share Image
There were a lot experiences I had during my transition and post transition, and I feel that I learned a lot, and… — Brian Michael Smith Copy Share Image
As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing -… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its… — Julian Young Copy Share Image
Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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