The older I got, the less pretentious I got in my art tastes and work. — Susanna Fogel Copy Share Image
The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two. — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too. — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
“Craft is what we are expected to know; art is the unexpected use of our craft.” — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
[Miley Cyrus] got a fantastic voice. I do think she's a fantastic artist and does great songs. I wish her all the… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The thing about writing or making art is that I'm not thinking about that stuff while I'm doing it. Like the driver's… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“We weren’t idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with… — John Updike Copy Share Image
True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image