It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend. — Macklemore Copy Share Image
I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher. — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
“The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist. — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
Unless you have strong roots in films, music, art, painting, or theatre, you can't talk high and think internationally. — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same. — Terence Stamp Copy Share Image
In a way, the whole music industry is just catering to the inherent esteem issues all these artists have - it lays… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write;… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Mad! Quite mad!' said Stalky to the visitors, as one exhibiting strange beasts. 'Beetle reads an ass called Brownin', and M'Turk reads… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
To forgive is an art, and to this day I have not mastered it: I stillcannot forgive myself for my mistakes — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form. — El-P Copy Share Image
The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. — John Barth Copy Share Image
“Those who are successful have mastered the art of levering at least one thing that they are good at and marketing that one… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going… — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you. — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
We got full artistic integrity and autonomy over what we were doing, and that was the main important thing that kept our… — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about… — Franklin Carmichael Copy Share Image
Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure. — Robert Stromberg Copy Share Image
It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad.… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
“In the history of mankind, the fine art of killing one another in a civilized and uniformed manner has been elusive.” — Richard Marsden Copy Share Image
“Any work of art," said her grandfather,"must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world.” — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You name… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul. — Daria Halprin Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that,… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
When my body, my energy is low, it's hard for me to be a good husband, hard for me to be a… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can… — Marcel Dzama Copy Share Image
I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they… — Alison Mosshart Copy Share Image
I like to travel. I will be in Banff next year. I would like to make a series of DVDs at Banff.… — Francesca Da Rimini Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
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