Our society and media have lost touch with the job of the artist. The job of the artist has been subordinated to… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
The thing I hate about mixed martial arts is that it's no longer a sport. It's a big-money business, and it's an… — Tyron Woodley Copy Share Image
I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out… — Tyler Farr Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
There are many tremendous artists that never make it. Talent is not enough if no one sees, hears and tastes your work. — apl.de.ap Copy Share Image
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and… — Ricki-Lee Coulter Copy Share Image
I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“both you and paintings are layered… first, ephemera and notations on the back of the canvas. Labels indicate gallery shows, museum shows,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
“It feels better to speak in metaphor, easier. It’s saying the truth without actually saying the truth. You could only speak to… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art.… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Being DIY is awesome because you have total control, I never really wanted to get signed. I'm successful because I make art… — MC Lars Copy Share Image
Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we've ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower, which must be cautiously cared for and protected, from the harsh elements of "human weather.” — ELLE NICOLAI Copy Share Image
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that. — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all… — Steve Smith Copy Share Image
The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process. — Renaldo Nehemiah Copy Share Image
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves. — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
“Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a… — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm actually really bad at the Internet. I'm never scouring it to find new artists or new anything. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
I look at basketball as an art, so whatever I do on the court, I try to make it as smooth as… — Jerami Grant Copy Share Image
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
I think it's the duty of the artist to run away from home. I mean I think you have to go far… — Sean Mathias Copy Share Image
“I’ve studied this form of art since joining the lifestyle. It’s my gift, you could say. My talent.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
