Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like,… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow. — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It is vital for artists to nurture and protect that which will make their vision unique. — Jane Fulton Alt Copy Share Image
“It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances when you're not safe… — Danny De Vito Copy Share Image
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection. — Anderson Silva Copy Share Image
Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the songs that really affected me were not from the artist catalogue of their music, like the song 'Thunder Road' by… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics,… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
I feel like there are a number of indie artists... as they grow, it makes the most sense for them to pivot… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work… — Carlo Ponti Copy Share Image
I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
“Art is not an assembly of accidents. You have to master the rules before you break them.” — M. Pierce Copy Share Image
We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs -… — Marion Raven Copy Share Image
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
I'm interested in everything. If I had enough time on this earth, I'd like to learn every art practice. — Hunter Schafer Copy Share Image
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That's a very convenient way to get very… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect… — Questlove Copy Share Image
My art is representational by choice…if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I went to a liberal arts college wherein grading was qualitative and we had to write our own evaluations. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I started work as a makeup artist at the BBC, which was a vibrant, exciting and caring place. — Dave Myers Copy Share Image
At art school you realize that in order to stay engaged you have to ignore the critics, good and bad. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
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