artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If people like you, they will like your magic. If you are an artist at what you do, they will sing your… — Paul LePaul Copy Share Image
“This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I am first and foremost a musician, although those of us who live elsewhere still dream about the inspirational qualities of Australia… — Roger Woodward Copy Share Image
There are 100,000 artists on Pandora & 70% are indies; artists making $100K - $2 million. — Tim Westergren Copy Share Image
Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As for Aamir Khan, he keeps raising the standard with every film. For an artist like me or a newcomer like me,… — Tiger Shroff Copy Share Image
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
“Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
Stand-up on the telly is one thing, but seeing it live is something else. There are brilliant comedians playing to rooms above… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Just black executives have a bias against older artists. We don't respect our elders. That's not because of white people. That's because… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I want the biggest artist of 2030, 2027 or even 2025 to say, 'I was inspired by Cordae. Cordae is the reason… — Cordae Copy Share Image
Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises… — Moby Copy Share Image
Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing… — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through. — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“...art is made by the alone for the alone… The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication...” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial. — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
Very wealthy people often want to talk to broke artists about what it's like to try to follow your passion. — Celine Song Copy Share Image
Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art. — James Mangold Copy Share Image
“Talent never guarantees the success, its the art of success which can leads you to the sky” — Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed Copy Share Image
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real… — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have. — Agnes Gund Copy Share Image
Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Now I have a business, artists to take care of. I want to make sure everything's going right, because at the end… — Mustard Copy Share Image
There is such opacity within the art market. There's also an abundance of fraud and misrepresented goods, which leads to mistrust between… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty… — John Keats Copy Share Image
