Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
You can feel greatness in the ring. You can get two guys that gel together and it's just like poetry or a… — Ricky Steamboat Copy Share Image
While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative…the real secret of… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
In some ways, writing music is an art because so much of it is instinctive and sort of below consciousness, and lyric… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
It's really painful when four singers are asked to sing one track, and in the end, only one of them is kept.… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind… — David Rasche Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For me, being Christian Armenian, born into the Islamic culture in Iran and then, at the age of 13, being sent to… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively.… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis falsely printed, though… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more… — Donald Kuspit Copy Share Image
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
6'2 human skeleton being made of 1/4 copper wire, weighing at over 50 pounds when done? OHHH YYEEAAHH!!!!!!! Loving every minute of it! ^.^ — Christopher Timmerman Copy Share Image
“Thunder Road' knows who I am and what I feel, and that is one of the consolations of art.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.… — Seth Godin (Author Copy Share Image
I suppose it would be really alarming to an artist to play in a concert and see everybody just watching. — John Hughes Copy Share Image
Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a… — Jet Li Copy Share Image
Every day, through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art. — Ian McLeod Copy Share Image
Doth sickness fill my heart with fear, 'Tis sweet to know that Thou art near; Am I with dread of justice tried,… — James Edmeston Copy Share Image
The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with. — Lee Hammond Copy Share Image
“Like art, love is an act of creation, but love far surpasses art as a cure for emotional suffering.” — George E. Valliant Copy Share Image
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more… — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art… — Alvin Langdon Coburn Copy Share Image
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
