Happens Quote by Charles James

“I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but…

— Arbella Stuart

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

— Scott Avett

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

“Between the ages of ten and fifteen in St. Petersburg, I must have read more fiction and poetry—English, Russian and French—than in any other…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I was fashionably late in my unfashionable clothes.”

— Jarod Kintz

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

— Robert Lyn Nelson

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

— Jerry Saltz

I'm an advocate of all mediums - it's a larger canvas for us as artists - but we have to keep in mind that…

— Sean Baker

“What can an artist use but materials, such as they are? What can he light but the short string of his gut, and when…

— Annie Dillard

Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on…

— D. J. Enright

You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.

— Frank Stella

The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who get to…

— Jenny Saville