I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows.… — Narada Michael Walden Copy Share Image
Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice… — Dan Inosanto Copy Share Image
After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and… — Emm Gryner Copy Share Image
Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
When Allen Ginsberg was still alive, he was was an artist, but he was very local. He was just another wing-nut in… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The reason I love blogs so much right now is that I am seeing more critical voices appear, and that's kind of… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“what was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Basically, I thought for a very long time that making music and art projects, that that was just something that I did,… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
“She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
A lot of people take shortcuts in terms of using athleticism and defensive tactics to try and have the right game plan… — Josh Barnett Copy Share Image
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my… — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Anything can be art: painting stairs, raising a child, or organising a trip to the end of the world. It's the way… — Mykyta Isagulov Copy Share Image
Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The trick to not being discovered until it is too late is to become part of the expected surroundings. Stealth is more… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
On 'Idol,' you have to show off your vocal abilities, so I stuck to the ballads, so I'm glad my first single… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
“The painted aircraft took on sunlight and pulse. Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, the force of saturated light—the whole… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being…It happens… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“I wonder if it matters that what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The having of the ideas is quite otherworldly. And then the making of the art itself is quite scientific. It's a combination.… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace,… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
As much as I love to slay a red carpet hitting the ground running with 'Beale Street' and 'Native Son,' representing two… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
