I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too. — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
I've been a martial artist since I was a kid. It's basically who I am. — Dillon Danis Copy Share Image
I'm a Baha'i; we really believe in Baha'i faith that our work has to be our service, especially in the arts. — Justin Baldoni Copy Share Image
Some people take that really seriously. There's an art to it and I've watched people drive themselves crazy sequencing an 11, 12 song record. — Josh Freese Copy Share Image
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The only real satisfaction is live performances. That's when you can actually get some feedback from what you're doing. You get that… — Jeffrey Osborne Copy Share Image
What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
As nice as some of the booths are, it's not the same thing. It's a pity for young artists, because one of… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
My experience says that if you put out a lot of personal work that's good, it tends to attract high dollar commercial… — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I am constantly reminded that we human beings are basically storytellers. More homo narrans than Homo sapiens. We see ourselves in others'… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
“... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul” — Kunal Jajal Copy Share Image
Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love. — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing. — Haim Harari Copy Share Image
Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
