If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts. — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10% — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the land; I'm the fastest man in mixed martial arts. — Demetrious Johnson Copy Share Image
For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama. — Alix Smith Copy Share Image
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer. — Clive James Copy Share Image
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Faith to me is a form of self-expression, like a work of art, a manifestation of freedom, not a tool for mindless… — Sahar El-Nadi Copy Share Image
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back.… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go… — John Kindness Copy Share Image
I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
“As long as a man knows very well the strength and weaknesses of his teaching, his art, his religion, its power is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
“Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Art fairs bring attention to up and coming artists and some amazing new works. They are a way to connect everyone with… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“That’s quality programming. It’s on the Arts and Entertainment Network.” — Robert Bevan Copy Share Image
I just needed to love myself as an artist and now that I do, I want to be the best. — Doechii Copy Share Image
“The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing. — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real. — Peter Gallagher Copy Share Image
Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist. — John Legend Copy Share Image
A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
