UFC has done a fantastic job of establishing the biggest leading brand in mixed martial arts. Years ago, many people didn't know… — Michael Bisping Copy Share Image
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Stand-up gets much harder as you become older You become more conscious of how great an art it is and more embarrassed… — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on… — John Merrow Copy Share Image
If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the greatest pieces of modern art created by anyone. I'm not blowing my own trumpet here. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Let the artist show his world, the beauty that was born with him, that never was before and never will be again. — Hermann Bahr Copy Share Image
There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction.… — Donna Levin Copy Share Image
“Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“It would have been possible to back out of his engagements by assuming the license of the free artistic spirit, but he… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
Seek to make your work a prayer, your believing an act, your living an art. It is then that the object of… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
The thing about writing or making art is that I'm not thinking about that stuff while I'm doing it. Like the driver's… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
Ive been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms -… — Kurt Angle Copy Share Image
I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over… — Boz Scaggs Copy Share Image
A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal. — Bronislaw Huberman Copy Share Image
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist. — Hiroyuki Takei Copy Share Image
Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy… — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.” — F.K. Preston Copy Share Image
“They overlook the possibility that brainstorming can be a skill, an art, more like playing the piano than tying your shoes.” — Thomas Kelley Copy Share Image
The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm. — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school. — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking… — Catherine Yass Copy Share Image
I want to put a stamp on music because all the best, all the people that I love or the best artists… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
