My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums,… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my… — Britt Robertson Copy Share Image
You know, its like, as an artist you want to express your full self. You dont want to either have to make… — Kim Wayans Copy Share Image
“I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative. — Nikki DeLoach Copy Share Image
“[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Seriously, if you want to get inside the head of a stand-up comic, you could do a lot worse than reading Steve… — Al Murray Copy Share Image
Mimicry artistes and comedians are supposed to incorporate incidents around him in his acts in a satirical way. For that, he should… — Salim Kumar Copy Share Image
“When you flood your mind with negativity, doubt, and inability, you interrupt, interfere, and block movement toward possibility. ” Excerpt From: Sarah… — Sarah Voldeng Copy Share Image
An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Working a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I was once judging some prisoner art, and you wouldnt believe the number of eagles and tigers and symbols of freedom and… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques. — Charles Guggenheim Copy Share Image
There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
I was sort of mute when I went to art school. There were two girls there who thought I was German because… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate. — Susannah McCorkle Copy Share Image
A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to… — Franklin Carmichael Copy Share Image
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself. — Quentin Bell Copy Share Image
Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule,… — Paul Russo Copy Share Image
“It’s not the art, it’s the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it’s organic;… — LaMar Boschman Copy Share Image
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
“(Query: Is it possible to cultivate the art of conversation when living in the country all the year round?)” — E.M. Delafield Copy Share Image
It's not necessarily all about commercial success. It's about inspiring in the world and having what you do seen as art and… — Chris March Copy Share Image
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
As hip-hop artists, you have to take the music seriously, not just as a way to get rich. — Xzibit Copy Share Image
“Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I promised to finish school, so I'll figure it out I guess. Besides, I'm on a special school for musicians and artists,… — Martin Garrix Copy Share Image
I sure would like to hear from those British and Gurkha knife artists I took into Burma. — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image