All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance. — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
To be a songwriter-singer means the songs come from deep within, and you treat them as an artist, with that much respect.… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself… — Lepota L. Cosmo Copy Share Image
I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For sheer creativity and totality of involvement, 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' with HTV in Bristol was an amazing show to work on, but… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
“The businessman who wishes to gain a market by throttling a superior competitor, the worker who wants a share of his employer's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything. — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a… — Henri Langlois Copy Share Image
My idea is that artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really… — Kim Dotcom Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes. — Drummond Money-Coutts Copy Share Image
The Soulfly logo was invented by a tattoo artist, Leo Zuleta; a lot of people don't know that. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it. — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
“He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I don't think any artist has really relied on music videos the way I do. It's almost like my radio. — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs… — Jerry Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions. — Meredith Baxter Copy Share Image
As an artist, I will always give art more importance and preference than pure entertainment. — Arfi Lamba Copy Share Image
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