I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
“A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection.… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious ... I… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
“The French always make our sort happy because, like us, they know how to love, they're just as good at playing the… — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
“The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a… — Ernest West Basden Copy Share Image
“It's like with art. You can't tell someone how to do it, or it's not her art. You can't tell someone else… — Miranda Kenneally Copy Share Image
Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Films are born from screenplays and they are guided by words. They are born very limited and there is no space for… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Rock music has always embraced - and even represented - rebellion, rowdiness, and a robust disdain for social decorum. But along with… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying… — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I kind of decided to take a year out to see where the music would go and then it started going somewhere… — Florence And The Machine Copy Share Image
Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
I'll always work with Stones Throw, but I'm trying to start my own label to release my old material and sign new… — Madlib Copy Share Image
Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
An artist is made to entertain. That's their primary goal, to entertain you. But some artists record the moments of time. You… — Rza Copy Share Image
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community,… — Floyd Norman Copy Share Image
For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling… — Danny Pino Copy Share Image
Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems,… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
“For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
“This is the story of an electrically alive young woman on the brink of her adult life. An artist equally attuned to… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
As an artist, there were different levels in my career that brought me to a realization that I am what you would… — Heavy D Copy Share Image
“His radio plays include: If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank, Albert’s Bridge (Italia Prize), Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending A Staircase,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
