First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I graduated from Wesleyan University with a b.a. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
I do think that as an artist, I crave privacy because that is when you get to really check in with yourself.… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages,… — Susanna Phillips Copy Share Image
“Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I am a terrible chef; I'm not a good cook. I don't have the talent, the patience, the desire even to cook… — Philip Rosenthal Copy Share Image
He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they’ve gotten good at it, and they’re… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Until 'Lovecraft Country' feels like a show where people go, 'Is that how the world used to be?' we do need to… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
When it comes to best new artist or album or song of the year, yeah, it's very rare that you see someone… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside… — Zhuge Liang Copy Share Image
I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“Like James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Woolf ’s first novel is a self-conscious meditation on… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art.… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The Voice of Heaven is a still small voice. The voice of peace in the home is a quiet voice. There is… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If I were not a black artist but I was still singing, playing guitar, and singing ballads that are spiritual and cerebral,… — India Arie Copy Share Image
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and… — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
“There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I've been told throughout my career that I have good instincts, and the idea of discovery and development in terms of a… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing… — Daya Copy Share Image
I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
There's this food that's evolved over thousands of years and people have made their own kind of thing, but it's not art-food,… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products.… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The time is a thing; you don't have so much time. A good trick is to try and think about a way… — Thomas McDonell Copy Share Image
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