If you’re convinced as an artist of what you’re doing the only move is to, no matter what people say or what… — Zedd Copy Share Image
“Whether you dance, draw, make music, shoot field goals, build houses, tune engines, or sit around all day watching television, you are… — Scott Edmund Miller Copy Share Image
“do they not tell us more of the real spirit of the Italian Renaissance, of the dream of Savonarola and of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“Pam was a struggling artist who made everyone's life difficult. She only wore black and after becoming acquainted with her I couldn't… — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
When I started thinking about it, I was like, 'OK, if throughout time I get labeled as a conscious artist, I'll be… — Common Copy Share Image
I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As an introvert, you have to spend a lot of time with me and then little bits of my personality will come… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
The life of an artist is always reproving what you can do, and I feel like there is still so much more… — Lynn Whitfield Copy Share Image
In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature,… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little.… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo Copy Share Image
I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Rock and roll was a good way to, to first recognize the, the confluence of white artists with it but also to… — Cosimo Matassa Copy Share Image
I remind myself that traveling through life as an artist requires one to distill things slowly. To be inquisitive, inventive, and patient… — James Nares Copy Share Image
I think producing a record for other artists is almost like giving them advice, and I would say that it is easier… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen,… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Visionary art sure has played a vital role in my own "soul's journey," and I would say it's been important for many… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions… — Jacques d'Amboise Copy Share Image
An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels,… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
The artists catch what's in the air. It's not because the artist "felt like it" or is a guru who channels the… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
My manager, my band members, we're all good friends. You need that because a lot of times an artist will be so… — Keith Whitley Copy Share Image
I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
