I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
“A template is something you can choose to use and then adapt or combine; it accelerates your start but doesn’t limit your… — Will Mancini Copy Share Image
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself. — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested,… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
“How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of Bowie as an artist, with his Burroughsian cut-up technique, creating these undecipherable, abstract songs, where we all… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
I think it's exciting because it pushes you harder to write a great song. Even for established artists, it has to be… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
We got a chance to represent Black country artists for younger Black kids who want to do country but don't feel anyone… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
“What if you start to think of your art in terms of sales, too? Can you still be true to yourself?” — Kevin Emerson Copy Share Image
Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry. — John Hollander Copy Share Image
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things. — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting. — Marcel Dzama Copy Share Image
When I went to Standing Rock, it opened my mind, as did going to Indian reservations and speaking to kids about music… — Taboo Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it… — O'Shea Jackson, Jr Copy Share Image
“Opium had artistic significance, you know. Picasso smoked. He said the scent of opium was the least stupid smell in the world,… — John Baxter Copy Share Image
You have to have really thick skin. Art is obviously there to be criticized and there to be taken in different ways.… — Bel Powley Copy Share Image
Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
We need to inspire kids to take notice of how and why a computer works. It's the marriage of art and science. — Will I Am Copy Share Image
