I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
I do feel like L.A. has a very supportive and collaborative energy. I felt that in New York too but also there's… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
“It follows from Schopenhauer’s analysis that evert genuine work of art must have its origin in direct perception; that is to say… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
Once you are afraid of death you are bound to be afraid of life. That's why I am talking about this Hasidic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden… — Grimes Copy Share Image
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; I felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Yes, I want to make amazing, enduring albums that are perfect. But I also want to make what I want to make… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry,… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Without that discovery of the "moving photo," the world today would not be what it is: the new technology has become, primo,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Humans have terrible passions that can go either way: create or destroy, it all depends on where they emerge. Art is not… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you… — Greg Laswell Copy Share Image
The talents of an artist, small or great, are God-given. They've nothing to do with the private person; they're nothing to be… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
“Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms… — Deb Margolis Copy Share Image
Think about how many great works of art or game-changing ideas were ahead of their time - their creator's talent underappreciated until… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
“It was not the first time I had encountered on university campuses ignorance of Hayek and other conservative intellectuals, nor was it… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
The President can't go around in a steel box, as much as the Secret Service would like him to. Protection is an… — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image
“Most people write me off when they see me. They do not know my story. They say I am just an African.… — idowu koyenikan Copy Share Image
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Maybe Japan itself is a little similar in that a lot of young people seem to have a little knowledge but not… — Hiroshi Fujiwara Copy Share Image
I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
I never had the sense of myself as an accomplished artist, and I always had to work three times as hard as… — Toshiko Takaezu Copy Share Image
Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“When art sets racism in the past, no matter how good it is, it allows white people in the audience (and others)… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
“Archaeologists have not yet discovered any stage of human existence without art. Even in the half-light before the dawn of humanity we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I… — Claudia Lee Copy Share Image
