Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger. — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say stuff to relate to people. It just really depends, because you don't have to be one type of artist… — Tyga Copy Share Image
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on. — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
“Successful living is an art, and finding the right balance in our lives is the work of a serious artist.” — Michael G Sawaya Copy Share Image
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The… — Miguel Ferrer Copy Share Image
I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
One of the most important elements of Caio-ness I wanted to keep was that left to right reading, where one form draws… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Before I was a musician, I drew. The housing projects in Brooklyn weren't much of a canvas, people didn't know that I… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
“I never got to see a proper striptease. Not anything even remotely close. I was stupid and went to literary cafés and… — Tor Ulven Copy Share Image
True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans. — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what… — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act… — Alice Merton Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In the symphony of life, knowing when to heed the wisdom of experts and when to lend an ear to the collective… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Talent knows no boundaries and the song 'Keh Len De' is very close to my heart as its an excellent piece of… — Himanshi Khurana Copy Share Image
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
“Men who create art feel a zillion times happier than men who create wealth. Art lives on but wealth diminishes.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid." — Questlove Copy Share Image
And I know I will run for the rest of my life because the actual act and art and feeling of running… — Mary Cain Copy Share Image
We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art. — Hallie Burnett Copy Share Image
The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that. — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
“Amongst many qualities of a true leader, he is a successful manager who has mastered the art of people management.” — Rehan Waris Copy Share Image
I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
“In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting I just wasn't that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
