The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Activism and art do go hand in hand, but I am an artist and an 'artivist' within that. — Kiersey Clemons Copy Share Image
It is a responsibility of an actor, artist to make sure to add justice to the art form. — Regina Cassandra Copy Share Image
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance. — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
To be a songwriter-singer means the songs come from deep within, and you treat them as an artist, with that much respect.… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“If arts and music, precious gifts in themselves, were akin to memory, literature was the self-knowing of the species; the human mind… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize… — James Ensor Copy Share Image
Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and… — Pedro Reyes Copy Share Image
“Artificial intelligence is often described as the art and science of “getting machines to do things that would be considered intelligent if… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I believe in an artiste's life, there are two kinds of awards - first is the appreciation and good wishes he or… — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people. — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
“(The phrase “in the first place” is a vestige from the art of memory.)” — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel. — Nicky Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention. — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish... — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
