I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am. — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
I go through every single emotion. My artistic life will likely be shorter than it could be because everything is for real… — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image
All black art, post-slavery, has always tried to prove in its own way that a black life is the equivalent of anyone… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
I think as a creative person, anything you put in front of an artist, any type of medium, your specific tastes will… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening, his mind… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Nobody talked a lot in Japan, but I always had a good relationship with everyone. I always liked to talk with Anderson.… — Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Copy Share Image
Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate… — Alcuin Copy Share Image
To emphasize the importance of beauty is to connect art again to emotion and desire. To find something or someone beautiful is… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul. Being creative can also facilitate understanding and encourage… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Men, not only in Turkish society but everywhere, have been the bosses in terms of creation. If you look at art history,… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction. — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. — Neal Cassady Copy Share Image
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important. — David Elliott Copy Share Image
Across generations, the torch-bearers of Carnatic music have mastered the art form of connection. — Sid Sriram Copy Share Image
My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
Homoeopathy is insignificant as an art of healing, but of great value as criticism on thehygeia or medical practice of the time.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.” — Marina Abramović Copy Share Image
To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
To be able to inspire somebody just by doing something that you love, just by creating your art, is something that's very… — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
I think when artists close their ears to any music, when they won't do anything besides country music or rock music, they… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we… — John Guare Copy Share Image
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting… — Thomas McDonell Copy Share Image
You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named… — Al-Farabi Copy Share Image
