Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“For Jascha, artistic creation was the most private activity in the world: the soul's sacred and solitary communion with itself. (p. 244)” — rebecca goldstein Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words. — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I just want to be an artist. I like making music. I don't want to be the one tryin' to figure out… — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
When I first started, stand-up comedians writing novels was thought of as a great encroachment on the art form and people got… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, when they write a song, they put it on a pedestal - and it shouldn't be.… — CMAT Copy Share Image
Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
“Magic happens when the wand of language strikes a stone and makes it melt, touches a spindle and turns it into gold,… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences. — John Cage Copy Share Image
The art of life isnt controlling what happens, which is impossible; its using what happens. — Bhaboo Copy Share Image
It's so great when there's a catchy song that's fun and easy to listen to, but there's also a real artist behind… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass. — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“Take the beautifully wild pieces of your life and shape them into the manicured works of art you want your life to… — Jaha Knight Copy Share Image
“Regarding creating a new work..."Sometimes you have to beat it like a red-headed step-child.” — John P. Sousa Copy Share Image
“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.” — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“...an artist doesn't really need a great deal of experience. One heartbreak can produce many novels. But you have to have a… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality — Jean Rousset Copy Share Image
Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body. — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture. — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting. — John Cage Copy Share Image
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
There's a great legacy before me. Many, many fantastic actors, artists, writers have come before me and created Superman. I'm very honored… — Brandon Routh Copy Share Image
I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. — Sol Hurok Copy Share Image
