Some ego is involved because I guess one wants to be perceived as a good clown and one puts one's name on… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't… — Zedd Copy Share Image
Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I guess music is the one universal art form that most people can be moved by, regardless of where they come from,… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
“A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
Overall, everyone has been respectful of my boundaries and my morals as a Christian and an artist. Sometimes I'll go to photo… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
“One thing I’ve learned about art is that, it’s not perfect. It doesn’t have to be a flawless masterpiece. I’m not perfect,… — Jac Prescott Copy Share Image
Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster,… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
I've always been very opinionated, for lack of a better term, about art. Not to sound too arrogant, but I guess I'm… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my… — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
“What follows is the sum and substance of a remarkable year in a great artist’s life— Alexander Wainwright. He was at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Strauss’s, for instance, which begins in the heavens. The artist doesn’t ascend to glory, he appears in it, he already has it… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“...it's as if I have just solved Skivver's predictive equations, or even better, as if I have intuited the One Equation, seen… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
“Art has no answers, only solutions, and resolutions... Art has only vision and revision... Art has only hope and more hope... again… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
Great architects like Taut, Mendelsohn, and Gropius built some astonishing buildings which were to change the way architects around the world thought.… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work… — Jan Phillips Copy Share Image
Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
