The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It just happens in life, where you resonate with a particular artist. Or it can be a kind of food or a… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Before the money or anything, number one, it was just to put out real music, real stuff with a passion, real art. — Lil B Copy Share Image
“Defensive coverage is about anticipation, and offensive effectiveness is essentially the art of surprise.” — Greg Wyshynski Copy Share Image
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In animation, what's wonderful is that when you start to work with multiple nationalities, the common language becomes a visual language rather… — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
I make video art pieces, take photographs, and dabble in acting ever since my screen test for 'Memoirs of a Geisha' with… — Jihae Copy Share Image
Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some… — Stephen Sprouse Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, the cool thing about modeling is that other people and artists I look up to are able… — Hunter Schafer Copy Share Image
You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise,… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used to sail with the wind. That wind is provided by my ceiling fan, and my boat is… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If you're just starting off as an artist, steal as much inspiration from everything you like, as much as you can. Take… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music… — Malcolm Wilson Copy Share Image
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
We go for our own reality. I remember some of our guys saying it is way harder to make stylized art directed… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others,… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
There are some popular artists - you would say they run Jamaica, like their songs are played everywhere in Jamaica, because everyone… — Koffee Copy Share Image
Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing. — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
Birth is the start of life, Beauty is the art of life, Love is part of life, Death is the last of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists. — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
I stumbled into acting. My dad, James, was a barrister but he was always very creative and he loved theatre and the… — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
I think - a lot of times in hip-hop, especially - artists get kind of pigeonholed into being 'the guy,' and it's… — MF Doom Copy Share Image
For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity… — Elizabeth Price Copy Share Image
Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change, the courage to change that which should be… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
“O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they… — Craig McCracken Copy Share Image
To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist. — H. R. Giger Copy Share Image
“Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an… — Seth Copy Share Image