'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers, they're both artists and actors; and their work and the way… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think… — Kaytranada Copy Share Image
Some artists can work under one guise, whether it's a name or a band or doing film soundtracks, put all of their… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
When I looked at people like Goya and Pina Bausch, the message I got was just do what you're passionate about. Don't… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your… — Joe Murray Copy Share Image
The definition of public art to me means everything and means nothing because for me, all art is public. Art has to… — Emi Fontana Copy Share Image
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
I constantly think as an artist, as a rapper of what are the stories you want to tell? They can't all be,… — Himanshu Suri Copy Share Image
My name came from me wanting a 'double-letter' artist name. In search of the ultimate L-word to put in front of my… — Laidback Luke Copy Share Image
I guess rap has such a bad name, because everybody can do it now, and that's probably why people don't want to… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
We artists can only go so far as the people can follow us. We are not alone, we are part of the… — Jean Giraud Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Ability to download music for free might not be positive for the artists to get royalties, but in some ways it's still… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship,… — Michel Seuphor Copy Share Image
I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Outside the plate glass the world in the mist had become a pencil drawing executed in a dozen different grays with, here… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist.… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image
The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn't until my teens that I… — E.J. Bonilla Copy Share Image
I think it's what the times are demanding. If you're talking about the popular artists, they collaborate with a lot of different… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
On a small planet, where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening, orderly… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. Robert Quillen As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and… — Robert Quillen Copy Share Image
“A work of art gives testimony to what it is to be a human being. It bears witness, it extracts meaning. A… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
By the time Guns n' Roses spent 28 months from 1991 to 1993 touring the 'Use Your Illusion' albums, the tour staff… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
