Me as an artist, I'm more notorious for writing songs that celebrate women, songs that are all about the positive element of… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in… — R.A. Dickey Copy Share Image
“...there is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.” — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available. — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Are the computers going to fail?” one of the artists asked him, licking ketchup off her thumb. She asked it like she… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Man may have rank and position and a thousand qualifications, he may possess all the good of the earth, but if he… — Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease… — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
If you wake up in the morning and your favorite artist isn't on the service that you're paying ten dollars a month… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
“What was Art, after all, if not simply giving out what you have inside you? ... Wasn't a bunch of carrots, yes,… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not… — Ben Gazzara Copy Share Image
I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art… — William Blake Copy Share Image
If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
There are very few singers who know the art of creating music which plays with people's feelings and emotions. — Sara Khan Copy Share Image
Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art. — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Never try to do anything artistic when you're feeling something overwhelming. It's like driving a car: If you're experiencing road rage, pull… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way. — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
My number-one hero in terms of interdisciplinary art is Laurie Anderson, but I've always admired anyone who can think way beyond any… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
“Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history your future is unmoored -- we drift. It is art,… — Sharon E. McKay Copy Share Image
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
“Artists make normal songs. Then Radio stations, TV and DJ’s turn those normal songs into hits” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
If I were you, I'd put that away See, you're just wasted And thinking about the past again Darling you'll be okay — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if… — Saulo Ribeiro Copy Share Image
“Bridges are built by words, thoughts, feelings and deeds. Art and love bring them all together...” — Mykyta Isagulov Copy Share Image
“Each time we bow to the feet of anything we find riveting, the mind rises to be surprised with new crowning diamonds… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. — Ludwig Erhard Copy Share Image
