The swimsuit and jeans look is my favorite. It was a big part of my introduction to the world as an artist.… — Ciara Copy Share Image
Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky with the people I've met over the years. Way back in the early '70s I went to [Phil]… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for… — Nas Copy Share Image
The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
When you're a young actor, you don't get very glammed up. Except, I remember the first time I had a photo shoot… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
Don't believe Wikipedia, not everything written there is true. The Soviet Artists Union was not a communist party organization. It was a… — Ilya Kabakov Copy Share Image
What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are,… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something,… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work… — Moliere Copy Share Image
With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films,… — Bruce Conner Copy Share Image
At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made… — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
“The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The artist thing is just natural. If that comes out, the music, the songs, I need some actual time which I dedicate… — Sage Francis Copy Share Image
Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
There are many artists I would like to have the honour to cooperate with. To accompany Barbara Streisand or Paul McCartney or… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“I understand that art is a necessary component of a civilized society, but you cannot just go around shooting people. That's going… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
“To create - a role, a poem, picture, music, a rapture in stone: great. But not for her. What she wanted was… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
I'm hoping that Abu Dhabi's first piece of street art will inspire the next generation of artists the same way that the… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
“Where we encounter the "naïve" in art, we should recognize the highest effect of Apollinian culture--which always must first overthrow an empire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is one of those few legal monopolies. If you want to listen to Prince, Mick Jagger doesn't do. Nothing else in… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“My mother defines collage as a combination of things unexpected. The artist can choose things that appeal to her visually, and put… — Jill Christman Copy Share Image
I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“Magritte’s painting The Human Condition. The real-world 3-D scene and the 2-D painting on the canvas create the same pattern of light… — Brian J Rogers Copy Share Image
It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ]. I went on to… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
![“I've been very lucky with the people I've met over the years. Way back in the early '70s I went to [Phil] Seuling's conventions for something like three years in a row from '70 to '72 and I remember at the '72 luncheon with the Academy of Comic Book Artists and talking with John Romita about the…” quote by Mike Royer](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d0b/mike-royer-14555_academy_i-ve-been-very-lucky-with-the-people-i-v_766773.jpg)
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