Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Marketing is the art and science of creating need. You can reach out to people to do this, but it’s far more… — Alan Weiss Copy Share Image
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“The art of bicycling is a purely mechanical attainment; and though its complications may at first seem hopeless, sufficient practice will result… — Suzanne Joinson Copy Share Image
The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
To make a movie, and we can call it a movie or we can call it a piece of art, to make… — Casey Neistat Copy Share Image
The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as… — RZA Copy Share Image
As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
There is quite an important director in Germany who I think in the early fifties over here, and then went back, and… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art,… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don't know what they're doing today. Who's to say… — Toni Braxton Copy Share Image
As an artiste, you just continue doing your work and enjoy the process of working... and that's what I've always done. — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Art should be perceived as subjectively as possible, and if anyone wants to see something in 'Belus' that I had not planned,… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another. — Sara Blecher Copy Share Image
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I feel like I have a responsibility to be true to who I am as an artist, first and foremost. — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll… — JR Copy Share Image
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I love the outlaw image and I think the industry has needed it. It takes the artist off a pedestal and brings… — Johnny Paycheck Copy Share Image
I always feel like we focus too much on image and the flashiness of what it means to be an artist. — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
“I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an… — Jack White Copy Share Image
We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is… — Robert L. Devaney Copy Share Image