The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter. — Francois Delsarte Copy Share Image
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts. — Lynn Whitfield Copy Share Image
It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada... The rest just quits! — Paterson Ewen Copy Share Image
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression. — Leonid Afremov Copy Share Image
If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
All German painters have a neurosis with Germany's past: war, the postwar period most of all, East Germany. I addressed all of… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels,… — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
I was actually dumbfounded by how some artists talked to each other. For example, it was a normal night at a bar,… — David Salle Copy Share Image
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