When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text. — Blixa Bargeld Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“Innovative CIOs with bold leadership styles are the key to re-imagine IT for achieving the art of possible.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.” — Luke Slattery Copy Share Image
Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus or thou… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
“Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating,… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
When I look at the 'Rocky Balboa' film when I played the undisputed heavyweight champion, I feel like art is going to… — Antonio Tarver Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor.… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
When I think about what really matters, it's not looking at art that has made the most difference or has been most… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken.… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some… — Karen O Copy Share Image
Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Art of the Deal' and numerous other books. Some were number one best-sellers. I guess 'The Art of the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it. — Hannah Hoch Copy Share Image
Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee. — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
“Three erotic paintings by Isa - $ 20K; chasing said artist in Benz SLS Coupe - $ 195K; the look on her… — Ella Dominguez Copy Share Image
All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless,… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
A lot of martial artists that I know, a lot of officers that I know, they all are really into comic book… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
“As with any artist,I see my first piece of blank writing paper as the canvas on which I will create my next… — Ernest Grant Copy Share Image
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul. — El Greco Copy Share Image
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image