When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
When I was 14-15 years old I was able to earn a little money from time to time but I'm not complaining… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Painters who do self-portraits are engaging in a form of narcissism. But it doesn't work like that in movies. A truly narcissistic… — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to… — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think, ultimately, the problem with something like this is that you actually have so many more opportunities to say something than… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
“You know, a carving, especially if it’s polychrome, is not meant to move. These faces, these half-bodies, when you animate them, they’re… — Jacques Yonnet Copy Share Image
“Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous,… — Nick Paumgarten Copy Share Image
As well as having a really strong message, sometimes an artist needs to couple their sentiment with something that's soulful and groovy… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me. In the music industry, any other… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
I think that's part of the battle of defining yourself as an artist. You're constantly fighting the pressure from outside to be… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
The urgency for me is to hurry up and become visible enough to either influence or shame other artists or corporations into… — Aloe Blacc 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 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
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 have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express… — Agatha Christie 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
