Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person… — Ray Conniff Copy Share Image
Trying to launch a career as an artist is like trying to run through a crowd holding hands with five people. It's… — LP Copy Share Image
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn,… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I'm listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side.… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
My 'Strictly' experience has taken my admiration for the skill and stamina of dancers to a whole new level. They really are… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Revealing aspects of the mystery of being human is life's inexhaustible research. Through the adventures of art, we find the meaning of… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
I started this martial arts journey 20 years ago with karate, and I never imagined it would come to pass that I… — Tecia Torres Copy Share Image
I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple,… — Court McGee Copy Share Image
The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment. — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
“What they achieved in art and literature is familiar to everybody, but what they did in the purely intellectual realm is even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
It is great to know that the lives and careers of country music's artists are being documented through the Hall of Fame's… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Sorrow fades," he muttered as he retrieved the last fragment, "grief dies, but Art lives forever.” — Kenyon Gambier Copy Share Image
I feel like when I fight it's an art, and Art isn't supposed to be 'nice', it isn't supposed to be liked.… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
“There really is power in numbers. In today’s society one has to understand the true power of word of mouth. It’s true… — Simon Zingerman Copy Share Image
I am not an insecure person. Thanks to my training in martial arts, I have it in me to appreciate good work,… — Ritika Singh Copy Share Image
“I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for… — Matt Corby Copy Share Image
“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.” — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case. — John Cage Copy Share Image
“A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to… — Ralph D. Sawyer Copy Share Image
