I just believe in collaboration. I mean, I've written songs on my own, you know, but I think if the artist has… — Max Martin Copy Share Image
Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Zen is the enemy of analysis, the friend of intuition. The Zen artist understands the ends of his art intuitively, and the… — Tom Hoover Copy Share Image
The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, it's great to have a knowledge of the business and be educated about that, but you've got to… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there's a new thing, it's abused… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Every artist wants to feel like they're still valid in a contemporary way. But you can't be so arrogant not to think… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The… — Michelangelo Pistoletto Copy Share Image
I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look -… — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
“Often dismayed by but generally unflinching in the face of perpetual adversity, he [W.E.B. Du Bois] engaged the battle for equal human… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability… — John Updike Copy Share Image
What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“I think that there is a terrible possibility now, in the World. We may not brush it away, we must look at… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history. The masses had been desensitized… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Fifteen minutes of fame doesn't make a career. An article in a magazine, newspaper, interview on television or multiple print ads may… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“...he knew of the innermost danger of all artists, he knew the utter loneliness of the man destined to be an artist,… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants,… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“I have this -- here’s this thing where it’s going to sound sappy to you. I have this unbelievably like five-year-old’s belief… — david foster wallace Copy Share Image
I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it's such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously,… — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
I wish that I could write. I think that's a wonderful outlet for an artist. You are ultimately in control. Your fate… — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
Some people feel that the purpose of cinema is entertainment - which in itself is a healthy enough goal, provided you define… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
![“Often dismayed by but generally unflinching in the face of perpetual adversity, he [W.E.B. Du Bois] engaged the battle for equal human rights and for modern civilization itself as an educator, literary artist, international statesman (albeit one without official U.S. government sanction), and…” quote by Aberjhani](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f31/aberjhani-1814_adversity_often-dismayed-by-but-generally-unflinch_2094573.jpg)
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