I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful of all, that of pleasing, only the desire. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Making art can be a mystical, spiritual experience. Sort of like golfing on water, which I haven’t done, because I’m more Michael… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revalation that human beings create art, that to be an artist… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to… — Jewel Copy Share Image
I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage,… — John Constable Copy Share Image
As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked,… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others,… — Carlos Gracie, Jr Copy Share Image
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
“The impact hit her like a physical blow. He was..."Beautiful." Eyes of such pure undiluted blue it was as if some heavenly… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art. — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and… — Aby Rosen Copy Share Image
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good. — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with. — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before -- or to show you… — Mike Duron Copy Share Image
It's a great thing about this Internet thing we've got going. I have the luxury of not going through filters or network… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its… — Kirk Varnedoe Copy Share Image
“Love is a more wonderful thing than art.' 'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with… — Dennis Brown Copy Share Image
I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all. — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium. — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work. — William Holden Copy Share Image
The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in… — Bebe Neuwirth Copy Share Image
“OMG! I DESIGNED THIS NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM! IT'S CALLED "POETRY" - YOU HAVE TO READ AMY KING'S POEMS TO GET AN… — Amy King Copy Share Image
Higher than every painter, higher than every sculptor and than all artists do I regard him who is skilled in the art… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
