Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Artists and whores, gold always bought them. An artist was no more than a whore who had been well-paid.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
We weren't art students, but we definitely created our own style and were pretty influenced by Andy Warhol and all the stuff… — Fred Schneider Copy Share Image
I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people. — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
Being a digital artist enables me to take my signature pieces and place them in a dimensional reality that only really exists… — Kesh Copy Share Image
Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
When I met the people at Warner, they were very excited about my style and making me into this big theatrical artist. — Saara Aalto Copy Share Image
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say… — Clive James Copy Share Image
If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
“It was the face that disturbed me. The artist had lit it in such a way that it appeared very strong, actually,… — Barbara Cohen Copy Share Image
“Rather the artist’s delight in what becomes, the cheerfulness of artistic creation that defies all misfortune, is merely a bright image of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I never knew what my role in art was, because I was such a deep appreciator and such a passionate appreciator. But… — Alexa Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Unbelievable,” I said when it was done. And Brilliant and Audio crack and That one will be everyone’s breakup song, and so… — Kelley Eskridge Copy Share Image
I had seen "Force Majeure" and I just love that movie so much. And I really wanted to artistically give a little… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another… — Christian Bauman Copy Share Image
Regardless of anything I say, some people try to take the fact that I'm an artist away from me. — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Compromise: The art of dividing the cake in a way that makes everyone believe they got the largest piece. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance. — John Michael Montgomery Copy Share Image
The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But… — Usher Copy Share Image
Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
“Art was not simply a foregone conclusion, the final link in a causal chain. It was not the inevitable outcome of an… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's… — Tye Sheridan Copy Share Image
“It is not the artistic aptitudes that are secondary sexual characters as some shams and shamans have said; it is the other… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“of all the things I'd either inherited or learned from my mother, the art of the lie was the most useful.” — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
“The Art of Being lays the foundation for your first impressions, because if you get this part wrong not much else matters.… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“The warrior learns to master the art of holding fast to dreams while accepting the rigors of becoming the kind of man… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force… — Ishe Smith Copy Share Image
“Vātsyāyana’s famous textbook of erotics, the Kāma-sūtra, lists secret writing as one of the 64 arts, or yogas, that women should know… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso? — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
I believe monthly comics and the extended miniseries are the true hallmarks of comic art and storytelling. — Brian Stelfreeze Copy Share Image
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City. — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything. — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image