“Artists, on the other hand, talk to determine what works, what does not, and why. Their focus is more on the micro;… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
I like a lot of the new artists, but there's only one I can name that stands out to me the most:… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
“Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“How angry am I? You don't want to know. Nobody wants to know about that. I'm a good girl, I'm a nice… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
My parents were always supportive. They didn't say, 'Get a real job.' They believed in the arts, and they prepared me to… — Vanessa Williams Copy Share Image
“He said that doubt provided contour to faith, like shading in a drawing, that it allowed you to see what was really… — Anna Jarzab Copy Share Image
For me, boxing was a way of me exercising my frustration, anger, sense of injustice, but also a way of owning my… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Hip-hop started as this niche moment, and the values of it, the cultures that it carried on its back; language, clothes, the… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Trying to master the art of getting to know a girl without falling deep into the friend zone because you think you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
Whether I'm working with a Top 40 artist or crafting my own music, it goes back to one thing: telling a powerful… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
“Equestrian art, perhaps more than any other, is closely related to the wisdom of life.” — Alois Podhajsky Copy Share Image
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean? — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare. — Travis Nichols Copy Share Image
How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
