Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. (...) Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond… — Charles Shaar Murray Copy Share Image
When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings.… — Charley Harper Copy Share Image
I have never seen a rap artist yet to come and say, 'I'm a gangsta'. What he says is 'Man I spit… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
We make sure we have total artistic control with our albums. We were working with Interscope Records, and they had a hard… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
“If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through… — Mindie Burgoyne Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Just as you would when making a new work of art, don’t ask for help or seek the judgment of others. You… — Jackie Battenfield Copy Share Image
Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“No, the art of government was to curb and guide men’s greedy appetites into useful courses, so that, as the Scottish economist… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
The whole point of what i do - the monster ball, the music, the performance art aspect of it, i wanna create… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
For somebody like Kanye, fame is the fullest realisation of his art in a way. It's like an Andy Warhol dream or… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
The type of Buddhist practices that I talk about in 'The Art of Happiness' have to do with reconditioning one's way of… — Howard Cutler Copy Share Image
Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
A lot of the time, artists and musicians can get criticised for being ignorant or silly or not understanding the real world.… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
“Personally, I think so-called "common language" is more interesting and apropos than "proper English"; it's passionate and powerful in ways that "wherefore… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The two teachers that I had in the Art Institute who affected me the most were Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann;… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
“He, in his love songs, and his tales in prose, was without peer--and if fools claim Limoges produced a better, there are… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Science is part of culture. Culture isn't only art and music and literature, it's also understanding what the world is made of… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
I never would have thought I would be able to learn as much as I did from Blake Shelton, so I want… — Chloe Kohanski Copy Share Image
“Food’s my only bag. It’s my gig, my art, my life. Always has been, always will be. I’m always battling myself –… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I think, you know, for me, whatever I need to slot into to make that music the best it can be or… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image