I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the… — Big Boi Copy Share Image
The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
I don't have the psychological stamina to last under artistic compromises over a prolonged period of time. I get hostile and vindictive.… — Pernell Roberts Copy Share Image
Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
“BEAUTY. The visionary authority of Childs’s work resides, in part, in its lack of rhetoric. Her strict avoidance of cliché, and of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Remember when we didn't know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes… — Mona Adnan Copy Share Image
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Relationships are so important to me. Talking to someone, listening to them, and even writing a handwritten note or giving someone a… — Natalya Neidhart Copy Share Image
All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder. — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
Art often reflects what's going on in the world, and we're seeing stories that are very diverse and that are lead and… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how… — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
My sister has the heart of an artist with a hatchet and an eye patch. And I, we both now know, have… — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?"… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply… — Donald Justice Copy Share Image
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost… — Jack Beal Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Very early on, when I was in my twenties, Steve Jobs convinced me to quit college. He talked to me after I… — Bobby Kotick Copy Share Image
And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists,… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist. — Bobby Sherman Copy Share Image
I always tell people that I went through long hair. I was a typical art school scruff. It was good then. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic… — Matt Lucas Copy Share Image
Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent? — William Morris Copy Share Image
Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
More and more I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it’s important that I… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image