I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It's very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It's not really based on a label… — Travis Scott Copy Share Image
“With every line I write I kill off the "artist" in me. With every line it is either murder in the first… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I understand that it’s disheartening to pour effort and money into a work of art and find that others do not value… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
My mother really didn't come from artists. Her famous quote to me was, "The only artists I've ever heard of are dead."… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works… — Thelma Golden Copy Share Image
I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“[Women] are conditioned to ever prove ourselves, as if our value is contingent on our ability to meet the expectations of others.… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film,… — Paddy Considine Copy Share Image
When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down… — Tamara Mellon Copy Share Image
I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It's been frustrating that people only saw me as a 'featured artist' for a while, but in terms of making an album,… — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
It's the obvious thing to say but artists want to be able to tell all kinds of stories and tear down every… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines,… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
“..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of physical effort have accumulated the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“When I speak of life and love as expanding with age, sex seems the least important thing. At any age we grow… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“The point of art is not to give you what you already feel comfortable with; that’s reporting, not art, that TV, not… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Success is like a "Tawaif" Noble, Artistic, Rich, literate, full of etiquette and of course an addiction.. Yet never loyal to anyone..… — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when… — David Small Copy Share Image
“Many humanists and artists recoil from the proposition that cultural evolution has hitherto been shaped by unconscious impersonal forces. The determined nature… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
Blue jeans have gone around the world. But that's a product. We market blue jeans better, just as we market film better.… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd. Lady,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad. It's rough. Artwork is brutal for so many people. They let it happen… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
I love knowing and learning about people around the world displaying my art online. Also, it's how I learn about new artists… — Mickalene Thomas Copy Share Image
I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
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