There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.” — Adachi Zenko Copy Share Image
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. — John Keats Copy Share Image
I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music. — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
“After all, what is art if not a true image and a criterion for the perfection of the human soul?” — Dörthe Binkert Copy Share Image
It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves. — Carolina Kostner Copy Share Image
“And art has come to be a spectator of itself, the way it reacts, what newspapers write about it; the artist is… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
Writing is transcendental. It is a form of expression, a form of art that you can take anywhere. That you can do… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I started digging into parts of myself that I probably ignore and don't really get to express because Common is an artist… — Common Copy Share Image
“Besides that, Sebastian liked books —all kinds. He loved fiction, non-fiction, big picture art books, the smell, the feel, and the potential… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
“All art begins with a groping after form, then attains form, and then emancipates itself from too great insistence upon rigidity of… — Gustav Kobbé Copy Share Image
“Everything in any way beautiful has its beauty of itself, inherent and self-sufficient: praise is no part of it. At any rate,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God, where art… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
“Gratitude was a lost art, she felt. People accepted things, took them as their right, and had forgotten how to give proper… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I just want to be an artist. I like making music. I don't want to be the one tryin' to figure out… — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words. — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“For Jascha, artistic creation was the most private activity in the world: the soul's sacred and solitary communion with itself. (p. 244)” — rebecca goldstein Copy Share Image
It's so great when there's a catchy song that's fun and easy to listen to, but there's also a real artist behind… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass. — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
The art of life isnt controlling what happens, which is impossible; its using what happens. — Bhaboo Copy Share Image
The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences. — John Cage Copy Share Image
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“...an artist doesn't really need a great deal of experience. One heartbreak can produce many novels. But you have to have a… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.” — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“Take the beautifully wild pieces of your life and shape them into the manicured works of art you want your life to… — Jaha Knight Copy Share Image
“Regarding creating a new work..."Sometimes you have to beat it like a red-headed step-child.” — John P. Sousa Copy Share Image
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
