I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is. — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of… — Bruno Munari Copy Share Image
“The wind you hear is the birth of memory when the moment hatches in time’s womb there will be no art talk.… — Keropatse Kgositsile Copy Share Image
I think body-image issues are not just a dancer thing. I think we're much more in tune and aware because the body… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people,… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Many 18th- and 19th-century artists rejected, criticized, or ignored the Industrial Revolution. Instead of uplifting man, industry seemed to demoralize and dehumanize… — Jesse Bryant Wilder Copy Share Image
Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make. — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them. — Yo Yo Honey Singh Copy Share Image
“I used to ask myself, ‘Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?’ and thanks to the club, I… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
Only he can be an artist who has a religion all his own - an original way of viewing infinity. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act… — Seth Copy Share Image
Coming from an artistic family was really helpful because they understood that music is a real job, that I can make money… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
The art of negotiating is a learned skill. It is practiced and often honed in the marketplace as well as legislative bodies. — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
“No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it. — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
It's not easy for an artist, especially for a girl. But you know, you just have to work very hard, persist, trust… — Natti Natasha Copy Share Image
Most of the songs I write are full of power, and I'm suspecting it may come from my love for grotesque Renaissance… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with. Bergman and the other European directors were the first… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
The goal of Asians in the arts is plurality of roles. I've always been hindered by me over-thinking what is a stereotype… — John Cho Copy Share Image
I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact. — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
“An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
