The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock,… — Marisa Miller Copy Share Image
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“...the art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way,… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
Master Michelangelo once said that 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' This is what… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I understand that artists and critics make a big deal over the Grammys. But when I go to my shows and I'm… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
“I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. The best… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I think if you had different artists approaching the material in different styles, that's very different. I think it's an interesting thing… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses,… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
When you're doing so much, there's so much on your mind. The bigger the artist you become, you have to think a… — Stefflon Don Copy Share Image
The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm still the same artist; it's just different sides of me. I'm learning to be a little bit more confident in myself… — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
“Promoting my first novel has been a vulnerable experience. I know many artists and for the first time, I truly understand the… — Pádraig O'Gorman Copy Share Image
Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a… — Jack White Copy Share Image
The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to… — Oliver $ Copy Share Image
I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
When people ask me who I'd want to have dinner with, dead or alive, I always say, 'John Lennon.' I just feel… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
“My honors thesis project was my first interactive exhibit, in which two facing chairs were activated by a motion sensor when the… — Wafaa Bilal Copy Share Image
There's a great legacy before me. Many, many fantastic actors, artists, writers have come before me and created Superman. I'm very honored… — Brandon Routh Copy Share Image
When I moved to New York a year and a half ago, I feel like I really was able to access my… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the current presumption, if there is any man who has no right to solitude, it is the artist. Art cannot… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Embracing our challenges and shortcomings illuminates the vivid pigments of our unique watercolor of life. With each stroke of difficulty and dribbles… — Tina Leigh Copy Share Image
The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
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