“To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate.” — The Book of the Samurai Copy Share Image
I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat. — Harland Miller Copy Share Image
I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work. — James Frey Copy Share Image
You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage. — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music. — David Ruffin Copy Share Image
The arts don't care what your background is. They belong to everyone. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
People are getting record deals and they can barely sing. We have these new terms for artists that can dance, but they… — Warryn Campbell Copy Share Image
When I'm in New York, my favorite place on the planet is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. — Kellie Martin Copy Share Image
If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own… — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I've found that photographs from different genres can be extraordinarily generous with each other. I started out photographing myself in a landscape,… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that… — Gyorgy Kepes Copy Share Image
“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone,… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
“Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books.” — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
“the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
To me, martial arts is food for the soul and you have to respect that. — Renato Moicano Copy Share Image
All martial arts are different. They all got deluded by the sporting aspect. — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar, it makes you gag. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow. — Mary Carroll Nelson Copy Share Image
