“There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
I believe there is magic everywhere. From the way art takes form from an idea and can be shared, to the way… — Janine and The Mixtape Copy Share Image
I always have a ping-pong table in the studio. If you're with an artist and you notice the situation is going south… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist...… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“Faced with the blazing magnificence of the everyday, the artist is both humbled and provoked. There are photographs now of events on… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Always have clear lines of communication and be open to trying new ideas. Being open to new ideas is crucial to growing… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
“The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or… — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
There's a big thing right now with people using stand-up as a scapegoat. People think comedians have the power to change someone… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
I am suspicious and disillusioned about the uses and misuses of photography in the art world, the press, and the world of… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without… — Baldassare Castiglione Copy Share Image
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we?… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
“Except Caitlyn. High school dating, drill team, school spirit—it all seemed silly to her. Why did it feel like high school was… — Lisa Cach Copy Share Image
“I could come down for a couple of days, Daniel,but I'd like to bring someone." "Someone?" Daniel's senses sharpened. He leaned forward… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
“This way of 'choosing to be an an artist' seems lost for ever to today's impatient and cynical youth, who dream of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for any actor to eventually produce, and create the projects they want to create. I believe it's… — Michael Eklund Copy Share Image
“There's all sorts of ways to live, Chip. Some of them you give a lot. Some of them you take a lot.… — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Reading has made me more open, has improved my understanding, and has made me a better artiste, but it also makes me… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
For a while I used to listen to those whispers about babies costing you books, and Cyril Connolly's loathsome quote that "There… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Here is what I was trying to figure out: how a miracle happens. A great work of art -- something that makes… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“I feel like I'm in a film about a struggling artist who keeps getting up at all hours of the night to… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
“To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
Hip-hop started as this niche moment, and the values of it, the cultures that it carried on its back; language, clothes, the… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
For me, boxing was a way of me exercising my frustration, anger, sense of injustice, but also a way of owning my… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
“He said that doubt provided contour to faith, like shading in a drawing, that it allowed you to see what was really… — Anna Jarzab Copy Share Image
The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
My parents were always supportive. They didn't say, 'Get a real job.' They believed in the arts, and they prepared me to… — Vanessa Williams Copy Share Image
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