Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When I was in art school, I worried that being a painter seemed like it could be an elusive dream, and fashion… — Cynthia Rowley Copy Share Image
People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Artists have kids, mortgages, or drug habits, and they got to do what they got to do. But reforming and the reunion… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
I am an artist. An actor performs, whether it's in front of the camera or a live audience. — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to… — Karen O Copy Share Image
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I switched up so that I could work 12-hour shifts at the firm on the weekends so I could have days free… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I started off just trying to make a wish list for myself. I wanted to work with people I really admire myself.… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
You collaborate with actors who are also talented and visionary and come together on a artistic direction within the confines of humanity… — Ruth E. Carter Copy Share Image
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine." In order to even cut… — El-P Copy Share Image
Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“In the stillness I find my heart growing hot while I seek the person I have already found. God is so much… — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for… — William Booth Copy Share Image
I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There's a lot of concern that London is changing and artists are being forced to move to new areas. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
“It’s not love. It’s an obsession. And it’s not art. It’s a way of seeing things. A way to see the things… — Kirsty Eagar Copy Share Image
Each drop of a tear is costly then anything in the world But , No one knows its value until they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize… — Maurice Blondel Copy Share Image
Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when… — Kylie Bunbury Copy Share Image
I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day. — Drake Copy Share Image
“Motivational speaking is the art of telling people what they have been told before … without them noticing.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What… — Lola Ridge Copy Share Image
The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“** The fall semester will offer such classes as Learning When to Shut Up, Asking for Directions, Chick Flicks 101 and The… — K. Larsen Copy Share Image
I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, "Art, don't come… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
