I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in. — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of… — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
“To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of art. Theater, fiction, horror stories, love stories. This is… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“In its vulgar way, a painstaking piece of work, although one must always remember—something often forgotten today—that because things are generally known,… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso” — Edward B. Burger Copy Share Image
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling… — Hermann Graf Keyserling Copy Share Image
I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness. — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Art is fluid, and it travels. You have to let music take you where it wants to take you. You can't necessarily… — Khalid Copy Share Image
I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second. — Jenny Lewis Copy Share Image
My mom was real into like a lot of different musical artists, real artists, even back when Jay-Z and Beyonce was together. — Trippie Redd Copy Share Image
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
GaGa is a digital baby - that's how they communicate. There cant be any layers between the artists and their fans. — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul. — Barbara Mason Copy Share Image
The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
With Carlson Gracie, who saw something in me, I started learning and loved mixing together the martial arts. — Vitor Belfort Copy Share Image
“We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
There are still recording artists out there doing things for the right reason, but a lot of people seem to be just… — Biz Markie Copy Share Image
“Living well is both a discipline and an art. Concentrate on staying close to Me, the divine Artist.” — Sarah Young Copy Share Image
I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of… — David Rees Copy Share Image