When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking. — Malik Yoba Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something… — Mateus Ward Copy Share Image
Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As an artist, I will always give art more importance and preference than pure entertainment. — Arfi Lamba Copy Share Image
But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions. — Meredith Baxter Copy Share Image
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in… — Jack Waters Copy Share Image
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they… — Plato Copy Share Image
Lets start keeping it real. I'm saying to a lot of my partners who are rap artists, 'man when y'all do your… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs… — Jerry Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I don't think any artist has really relied on music videos the way I do. It's almost like my radio. — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it. — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes. — Drummond Money-Coutts Copy Share Image
The Soulfly logo was invented by a tattoo artist, Leo Zuleta; a lot of people don't know that. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
My idea is that artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really… — Kim Dotcom Copy Share Image
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a… — Henri Langlois Copy Share Image
Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
I remember being backstage in my full look and the make-up artist said to me: ‘Did you hear? Kendall Jenner is here.’… — Kendall Jenner Copy Share Image
When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Being a performer and recording artist and playing 'World of Warcraft' - that's a pretty time-intensive combination. — Lights Copy Share Image
I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements. — Om Malik Copy Share Image
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