It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“English tourists returned home [from the Italian Campagna] eager to make their own estates resemble Arcadian art. This fertile connection between horticultural… — Karen R. Jones & John Wills Copy Share Image
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings.… — Charley Harper Copy Share Image
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
If you look at the lives of artists, sitting in nature, painting, having the freedom. I think it's over. I think we're… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
A New York audience generally likes decorative paintings, and decorative paintings go with the couch. If you change the couch, you change… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
When I was doing just the underwater, I don't think people could relate to it at first. Then I added the land,… — Robert Lyn Nelson Copy Share Image
This is what the Democrats are fighting for. They're fighting for you not to have a job and still have health care… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and… — William Henry Jackson Copy Share Image
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something… — Art Wolfe Copy Share Image
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it the Reproduction of what the senses perceive… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
