When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Business schools do most things very well. They are just not comprehensive and what they miss are things like culture and creativity… — Grant David McCracken Copy Share Image
I came into having an artist's career in this very sheepish and directionless way. It's hard to explain, but I was 18… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
My father, Dennis Popham, was a very handsome, talented artist, and as my mother always reminds me, 'someone who had wonderful style.'… — Emilia Wickstead Copy Share Image
Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity… — Elizabeth Price Copy Share Image
It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked up… — David Dobkin Copy Share Image
I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Theodore Roosevelt is of singular interest, because he was, in many evident ways, a self-created figure. He transformed his life into performance… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Cyberbullying isn't real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They've got bullying… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
John Cougar Mellencamp - I didn't like him in the beginning. I liked some of the stuff around the 'Scarecrow' period. I… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film… — Kate Cary Copy Share Image
I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Back in the '90s, we saw prominent non-film artists like the Bombay Vikings do a splendid job on old classics and people… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
“A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you loved… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Understand that this art has been created by few soldiers in Vietnam to escape or reach: and this is the spirit I'd… — David Belle Copy Share Image
“You’re the Dentonville High art teacher?” She couldn’t help feeling defensive at his derisive tone. “Yes, and I love my job.” “Do… — Sara Daniel Copy Share Image
Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever… — William Westney Copy Share Image
“Art, she said, is more nuanced than life. If a teacher is lecturing and looking out of smudged windows, smeared with obscenities… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
Our job is to get out of the way of ourselves and let the art flow through us. We need to stop… — Kyle Cease Copy Share Image
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers?… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or… — Steven Page Copy Share Image
“I've mastered many things in my life. Navigating the strets of London, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The question to ask about education is not ‘What can I do with it?’ That is the wrong question because it concentrates… — Arthur F. Holmes Copy Share Image
The world of fashion and fine arts in New York really took me by surprise, and photography has helped me through a… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
“cooking was an art—and art was subjective. One man could love an ice sculpture while another thought it boring. It was the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I noted a second time appreciation for the author’s making room for intuition in the sermon process. Most of us give lip… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You can't argue that you have to have art, and prove it to anybody. Why should I give $1,000 to art when… — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who… — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
