“...what is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
As I've grown as an artist, I've gotten more and more in touch with my center, and that center is voice and… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“Understand: we live in the world of a sad separation that began some five hundred years ago when art and science split… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times,… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
“To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
(On being a female artist) No, I think I'm bringing something that's fresh and I think people are already paying attention. It's… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
“Artistic style is only a means to an end, and the more styles you have, the better. To get trapped in a… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“The act of looking appraisingly at a man, studying his body and asking to photograph him, is a brazen venture for a… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind… — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Veterans are not only targets of scammers and con artists for financial purposes, but also victims of extremists looking to take advantage… — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
“Under bare lightbulbs, artists painted phantasmagorias powerful enough to threaten armies.” — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Down with politics and the art of the possible; up with pronouncements and the allure of the prophetic: It's the way of… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
I'm a rapper and an artist, but I'm a human. That's what people forget. That's why I try to make them remember. — Rod Wave Copy Share Image
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
As an artist, I feel so fortunate to be able to learn from all these great musicians that came before me, when… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
“I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline. — Brandon Lee Copy Share Image
“A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I actually love physics, but art is where I thought I could make a difference for my country. — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Superb Love Quote By A Broken Lover: You hurt me more than I deserve. It is just because I loved You more… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness. — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
FRIENDSHIP is unnecessary like Philosophy, like art, it has NO SURVIVAL VALUE rather than one of those things THAT GIVE VALUE TO… — ALYSSA Copy Share Image
When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is… — Noma Bar Copy Share Image
Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss.… — Kathy Baker Copy Share Image
