The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back.… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are scared to do that, they are scared to step out on their own. What am I the… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
“from the ancient Chinese commentators found in the Giles edition. Of these four, Giles' 1910 edition is the most scholarly and presents… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“...she sat down at the piano and began to run over the first act of the Walkure, the last of his roles… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go… — John Kindness Copy Share Image
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer. — Clive James Copy Share Image
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Faith to me is a form of self-expression, like a work of art, a manifestation of freedom, not a tool for mindless… — Sahar El-Nadi Copy Share Image
It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
I've come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it's a reflection of life - but it's just a reflection,… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
So when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case,… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
“The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online,… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago. — Quavo Copy Share Image
I am an artist, and I have a lot more to offer than just being a one-dimensional character, and I think our… — Rusev Copy Share Image
I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because its scary. — Tyler Farr Copy Share Image
If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I have always been inclined towards art, but hadn't painted in a long time. I restarted it during the lockdown, by making… — Madhura Naik Copy Share Image
Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go. — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
Sex is the great amateur art. The professional, male or female, is frowned on: he or she misses the point, and spoils… — David Cort Copy Share Image
Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
