“I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.” — Elizabeth Isaacs Copy Share Image
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way. — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“Reach - The art of relentlessly pursuing a divine assigned goal or objective beyond expectations.” — Catherine Crumber Copy Share Image
I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it… — Elizabeth Holmes Copy Share Image
We believe being in long-term, deeper relationships with artists is a great strategy, we will be 100% pursuing it. There has never… — Michael Rapino Copy Share Image
Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black… — JWoww Copy Share Image
Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their… — Sanford Biggers Copy Share Image
''The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see… — Rebecca Sugar Copy Share Image
I want to inspire Asian kids to become more artistic and creative rather than feeling that they have to be academic or… — Ross Butler Copy Share Image
Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern. — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought or truly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I always knew what I wanted, and I always had a very clear vision for myself and my career as an artist. — Aimee Osbourne Copy Share Image
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The first record with an artist oftentimes can be the most exciting. When it's not routine for them, when it's really new… — Dr. Luke Copy Share Image