There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image
I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require… — Andrew Loog Oldham Copy Share Image
My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you… — Kevin Chamberlin Copy Share Image
Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM,… — Seth Troxler Copy Share Image
“[If] it were possible to watch composing in the same way that one can watch painting, if composers could have _ateliers_ as… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
“Friendship is a combination of art and craft. The craft part is in knowing how to give and how to take. The… — E.L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
I fought doing dance music as a solo artist for a long time. I always thought there was a ceiling with it. — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
I had a vision of bringing two cultures together, and I have said this in the past: my goal is to bring… — Nora Fatehi Copy Share Image
A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind;… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
My mom was heavily in the arts; my entire family, they're all musicians and draw. They have much more artistic talent than… — Kendrick Sampson Copy Share Image
I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
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History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on… — Lilian Whiting Copy Share Image
I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
“And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone… — Viktor Shklovsky Copy Share Image
Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The fact is, for the first 10 years I toured as a solo artist, I wasn't playing any of the songs I… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them.… — Kurtis Blow Copy Share Image
I prepare a lot. For 'The Artist Is Present,' it took me a year to teach my body not to produce acids. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
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