My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“It was so much more. You allowed your feelings to spill onto the stage in a way everyone in that room could… — Kathryn Craft Copy Share Image
When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
'Samurai' is not an animated show like you would normally watch on TV. We tell the stories from a different perspective -… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
To hear an artist be transparent is one of the greatest things they could ever do for their fans. I love that,… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature.… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I think, honestly, hard work is the only way that you'll get anywhere and this is not an easy job. People think… — Jay Sean Copy Share Image
There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements -… — Jean-Claude Ellena Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I just love the idea of being able to have a place where friends and family can meet, where you can raise… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
A lot of artists I like end up being queer. Or maybe it's a subconscious thing that you can identify of, like,… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
I was an 'Ironman' fan. It was in the '70s. I definitely liked comics and drew a lot of panels on my… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't… — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I am interested in Icons, not just religious works but also contemporary icons. I also like the way the Pop movement of… — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“BEAUTY. The visionary authority of Childs’s work resides, in part, in its lack of rhetoric. Her strict avoidance of cliché, and of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Mastering the art of seduction gives one a great power, and like any power, it's to be wielded with responsibility; a man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think.… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
I'm sure Madonna has been a huge influence for many female artists. Her live shows always make a massive impact; the sets… — BoA Copy Share Image
“Artists and activists offend the sensibilities of the rule-bound when they interfere with people”s ability to accept things in the private realm… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
“The artist’s artistic brush stroke of colour... Fractionally exists within the art canvas cover... Unaware of its existence in the art’s totality...… — Hugh Shergill Copy Share Image
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image