I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
If you are searching to figure out what is true and what is not, you will have a sad life. It means… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters. — Dhanush Copy Share Image
Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get… — James Van Der Zee Copy Share Image
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do think music and the arts are imperative for our kids for their creative learning and their emotional education, which breeds… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“We talked of a future life, of art, service, marriage, and education; nor did the idea ever occur to us that very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Part of my mission is simply that: to bring the world of the arts, particularly classical music, closer to people so they… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“Happiness, thou art naught but an illusion. Thy enchantments are cast upon my eyes, my mind, my spellbound heart. Dependent upon nothing… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting. — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to… — James Franco Copy Share Image
All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity. — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
I was a pretty fit and physical kid, and my first interest was in martial arts and kung fu with all the… — Dorian Yates Copy Share Image
When I met Johnny Cash, I didn't know what to ask: where were you born, who was your favorite recording artist, what's… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
I've been doing martial arts since I was five, so for me competition is something that's very common. — Yair Rodriguez Copy Share Image
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty… — John Keats Copy Share Image
What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next. — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture. — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be… — L.A. Reid Copy Share Image
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. — John Keats Copy Share Image
For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does,… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
