At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I tend to share whatever I know in general. I've never been a person to horde information for the sake of my… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I'm friends with [exes] and they hear the songs. I can honestly say I don't have any exes I hate. They're artists… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
I seem to have been possessed by a mind of my own and I did not merely want to be a pop… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
I don't collect art at all. I'm fascinated by art. I receive a lot of presents. My house is full of things,… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
Certain jobs [films] are for the business really, because they get an audience, they get a global audience. Certain jobs are as… — Jack O'Connell Copy Share Image
When somebody greedily comes along and thinks that they gonna snatch everything, and you have so many people that have not, the… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
“You can't dance to paintings. This is something Ben said, during one of our White Cube conversations, back when I was still… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“I don't suppose there has been a moment in the world's history where more people felt themselves to be artists, of when… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Different directors have different techniques in the use of films. Cronenberg is very different in the way he works with film, and… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
In country music, we are still behind the times. Outside of country music, it wouldn't be new to anyone to be a… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
“What does Art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions, makes them visible, and, in so doing, places a seal… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to be healthy because I want to survive longer as an artist. I want to go longer, and in… — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from… — John Hirsch Copy Share Image
That's the only interaction I have with people, those talking shows. Most of the people in my phone book are artists, management,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“I have qualms and wonder what a qualm would look like if you painted it -- probably like a bowl of melting… — Gloria Whelan Copy Share Image
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in… — Banksy Copy Share Image
One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
“after having, for instance, reproduced in a picture the right shoulder or the right ear of a figure, we deem it totally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my… — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
We tend to be talking to fabricators in the film and special effects or automotive customisation worlds. That having been said, I'm… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
“The toughest part has been getting used to being known. I've always been the guy in the background, being the actual artist… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
With regards to the paint, I'm normally quite introverted and shy. I keep myself to myself, and I find that when I… — Finn Balor Copy Share Image
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Imagine your life is a big canvas. Picture it in your mind and think about the beginnning of your painting of life.You're… — Stephen Biro Copy Share Image
Actually, I don't really draw that well. It's just that I don't stop trying as quickly. I keep at it. I happen… — Milt Kahl Copy Share Image
one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image