I have a problem with men that are supposed to be R&B artists that talk about women in a certain way, because… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
“The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space --… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there… — Josef von Sternberg Copy Share Image
I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Never did much art till I was in my 30s, except for painting video sets, designing record covers and T-shirts, and making… — Hunx Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't easy because you have to relieve the most painful moments of your life, over and over again, and then you… — Cristian Mihai Copy Share Image
I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But,… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
“You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again.… — Gary Panter Copy Share Image
Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a… — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I think there's a huge pivot in popular music, and just in culture in general, towards art that is vulnerable and emotionally… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation. — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Luc Tuymans Copy Share Image
I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan. — Miguel Copy Share Image
To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions. — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience unless you know your truth,… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response. — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere. — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality,… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty. — Jacques Prevert Copy Share Image
