I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist. — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
I will not bow down to others' perceptions of me; I will only rise in the name of art, love and music. — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
“A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that's kind of our mentality in… — Brett Young Copy Share Image
I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that… — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
“Great art is anything that provokes a deep emotinal reaction at the time that you hear it and then you can't get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and winged fowls:… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
For example, in England, we teach about Expressionism, but it is not the same in England as it is in Germany, because… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then… — David Deida Copy Share Image
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going… — Julia Michaels Copy Share Image
“Art transforms those that witness the creation, into philosophers, enquirers led down a path of mind; of quiet contemplation.” — Erik S. Lehman Copy Share Image
Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that… — Titian Copy Share Image
The best part of being signed by a major label was having the support of a big company behind me and the… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
I just want to be fully challenged as an artist, so that anyone who looks like me, who relates to me, says,… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; And thou art like the poisonous tree That stole my… — Elizabeth Siddal Copy Share Image
To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions. — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person.… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
In all forms of art, it's our duty to hold a mirror to society, without judgement of course. — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is always what's the coolest, and people want to touch that. A lot of the Pop artists always want to get… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
