My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter. — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“I have always been a anti-establishment artist. I once believed, and still do to some extent, that one could get a better… — Casey Carter Copy Share Image
When it comes to films, so much is in the hands of bottom-line guys. There's a lot of fear involved there, and… — David Nutter Copy Share Image
Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Carol’s early works were inspired by her difficult divorce and inner turmoil, and she urges people to embrace the dysfunction in their… — Gwen Blakley Kinsler Copy Share Image
The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
I love working with young artists. Jacob Latimore was the first kid that I auditioned. After he walked out, I turned to… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because… — Roger Bart Copy Share Image
You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Television was restricted by my parents. They encouraged reading more than anything. It wasn't done in a let's-get-educated kind of way, it… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
“In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“The first creation of every artist is getting carved from the best moments of his life!!” — Nelson Jack Copy Share Image
“Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls’ pants - use it to get into their heads.” — Scroobius Pip Copy Share Image
When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it,… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
But I wanted to put on a good show and make people believe in my music more than just being another TV… — Guy Sebastian Copy Share Image
Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
“All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I can't say any artist inspired me, because I'm inspired by the things that go on around me. — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black Copy Share Image
When I'm getting ready for a part, the makeup artist will often say something like: 'Oh, you don't seem the type for… — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and… — Joe Lando Copy Share Image
“tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it’s art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It’s” — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and… — George Sand Copy Share Image
