I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart. — Tony Jaa Copy Share Image
Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist. — John Legend Copy Share Image
Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen! — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey. — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. — Alexander Eliot Copy Share Image
As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
For all artists... you want to be loved and adored by as many people as you can. But the moral we've learned… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
“A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to… — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
“Our art is cynical and bad-ass and made by people who will not be happy until you join them in the church… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“These Taoists' ideas have greatly influenced all our theories of action, even to those of fencing and wrestling. Jiu-jitsu, the Japanese art… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry;… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
