I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures… — Channing Dungey Copy Share Image
Creating art is like being sick - you bring up all your innermost thoughts, and then you have to ask yourself why… — Goldie Copy Share Image
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in… — Hendrik Willem Van Loon Copy Share Image
Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent,… — William Penn Copy Share Image
What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art… — Cher Copy Share Image
Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it… — Joell Ortiz Copy Share Image
For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything. — E-40 Copy Share Image
“The poet must believe in the unknown as well as the known. This must become indistinguishable at times within the poem to… — the mag man Copy Share Image
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“Artists have to learn how to paint what's in the mirror, even if what they see is a total shit show.” — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can… — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
You really can't pigeon hole yourself into one particular artistic area any more; the days of one vocation in the arts have… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
“The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being cheerful. It will hold in check the demons of despair… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results. — Oliver $ Copy Share Image
Some of the most successful artists are the weirdest ones - look at Lady Gaga. I've done shows with her and she's… — Trace Cyrus Copy Share Image
True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing. — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses. — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
Well, I grew up in Hell's Kitchen, right next to Times Square, in a subsidized arts building. — Pauline Chalamet Copy Share Image
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