I'd much rather be called a champagne socialist than be an artist that isn't talking about the most pressing issue on the… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is… — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
My husband is a martial artist, and he thinks it's hilarious that I have a stage-fighting-proficiency certificate. He thinks that's ridiculous. Can't… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society -… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the… — Paddy Considine Copy Share Image
Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the people you… — Teresita Fernandez Copy Share Image
I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Traditional graffiti writers have a bunch of rules they like to stick to, and good luck to them, but I didn't become… — Banksy Copy Share Image
It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a… — Nas Copy Share Image
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time. — John Kani Copy Share Image
“In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.… — Joan Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art,… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is… — Liane Balaban Copy Share Image
I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as… — Mike Trout Copy Share Image
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly… — Steven Jackson Copy Share Image
Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Fashion is art and expression, and we need both to tell our stories and connect with others. I don't think that will… — Cedella Marley Copy Share Image
“When inspiration touches talent, she gives birth to truth and beauty. And when Steven Pressfield was writing The War of Art, she… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
If you look across my career, whether it be mixed martial arts or wrestling, it's very, very, very rare that I lose… — Ben Askren Copy Share Image
There's a whole different way to express yourself in music and the other arts, and it hopefully complements other things you do… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records. — Mos Def Copy Share Image
