I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
In France, disco was an artistic progression that might not have had the same social stakes. Also, the language barriers - like… — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though… — Michelangelo Buonarroti Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics!… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“In reality, the church has led the way in the art of enjoyment and pleasure. New Testament scholar Ben Witherington points out… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“Be not wise in thine own conceit, in thinking that thou hast learned all the skill which is to be learned already,… — Joseph Swetnam Copy Share Image
Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
The thing is, if people get it right away, I just don't think you're making art. I think you're making something they're… — Lori Petty Copy Share Image
Music is an extremely powerful art medium that can really affect people's emotions. It is amazing to realize how much communities can… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man… — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup,… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness,… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
While 'The Endless Summer' poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
“9 aAfter this manner therefore bpray ye: Our cFather which art in heaven, dHallowed be thy ename. 10 Thy akingdom come. Thy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total.… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts,… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I've gone to work, I've raised a child, and I've spent 30 years trying to better the lives of children and families.… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what… — Joyelle McSweeney Copy Share Image
So-called leaders aren't doing anything, so it's become the job of artists like me. We have to get on the front lines… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
One of the things I've had to struggle with is that part of what people find critically and curatorially questionable in my… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, - Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I've been a visual artist my entire life, so translating music to imagery has always come naturally to me. Tycho is an… — Tycho Copy Share Image
“Many modern artists, philosophers, and theologians reject the knowledge of the past. Thus they must continually start over again from ground zero,… — Gene Edward Veith Jr Copy Share Image
The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty,… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
I always ask any of the artists that open up if they know 'Family Tradition', since that's my last song in the… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
An album for me as a teenager in the '70s was a fully formed concept. It was a body of work from… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I went to an art school and you learn very quickly there that you're only as good as your next idea, not… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
