I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
Even if I weren't learning new roles and getting the opportunity to be coached by incredible people, I still think I would… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius… — Beck Copy Share Image
The entire 'my art is better than your art' thing really gets under my skin. The fact of the matter is: Your… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow,… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't think I realized what was going to be the hardest part of becaming an artist until I dove off the… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
“It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Lyotard remarked that post-Modern artists often function as philosophers. They may deal with issues of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, as many influential… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
I've lived this lifestyle as an artist and sometimes we get caught up in the fun, women and partying. But when you… — Mario Copy Share Image
I keep my face covered during concerts. That's just something that is part of me, an artist, and I think it's a… — Alan Walker Copy Share Image
I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages I try to constantly get across… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things… — Leo Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
It's hard to come across someone who can look past an artist who is larger and just see them for the talent… — Kelly Price Copy Share Image
“These artists pay little attention to an encircling present that bears no direct relation to the world of work in which they… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The superellipse — also common in Hermann Zapf’s lettering for book covers — can feel dated, perhaps because it brings to mind… — Stephen Coles Copy Share Image
I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
If you can see a thing you don't have anymore it's very heartbreaking. To hold onto things longer than we actually can… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
All the things that served me as a musician serve me as a cook. Being an artist is about communicating something deep… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
“I really wanted to get into this art school about two years before I started working at the Grille. I applied and… — Alice J. Wisler Copy Share Image
Both my parents and sister are visual artists. That skipped me over completely. I can't draw a straight line. I've found other… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens to all… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image