“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In my mind, martial arts movies are martial arts movies and action is action. It's quite different, because martial arts doesn't just… — Jet Li Copy Share Image
I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“To speak, to write , without charm is to make utterances without reference to a reality outside oneself. It is an act… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
My songwriting has brought so much to me as an artist and my ability that I have as an artist has brought… — Ahmad Balshe Copy Share Image
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most of the makers of the twentieth-century mind, figures such as Freud, Heisenberg, Picasso, Joyce, and Eliot, have in common an about-face… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
It’s time for a streaming service that is centred around and driven by the artist community directly. Artists are prolific beyond a… — Daniel Lanois Copy Share Image
“It is our habit to say that while the lower nature can never understand the higher, the higher nature commands a complete… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I hope I set an example to motivate people, to motivate the new fighters, motivate the guy who doesn't got to the… — Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to talented, creative people who often just don't know how to support themselves - they're more focused on their work… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I think for us, we don't feel like the future of music is in the act of being a record company. We… — Zac Hanson Copy Share Image
I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing,… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“A miniaturist creates his art by heeding his conscience and by obeying the principles in which he believes, fearing nothing. he pays… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as… — Imani Hakim Copy Share Image
The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
I'm just gonna keep growing as an artist, and I'm excited to work with different people and learn from all these other… — Banks Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge is self-financing 100% of everything. Recording costs, studio time, engineer fees, travel costs are all a part of the… — Mya Copy Share Image
Worthiness, in very simple terms, means I have found a way to let the Energy reach me, the Energy that is natural,… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I love taxidermy. I collect taxidermy. I'm fascinated by the art of taxidermy. But on a more artistic level, I look at… — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
“Photography is like stealing.You rob someone of a moment that exposes something essential about their character,their soul if you like.there are people… — Esther Verhoef Copy Share Image
If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life… — Jose Carreras Copy Share Image
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it disappears. The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much… — Rilke, Rainer Maria Copy Share Image
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Writing is hard. Writing that is good, writing that is powerful enough to evoke a change or an authentic emotion or even… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image