Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
You know, whenever you're shooting a film there's different obstacles and challenges, whether it be from the makeup artist getting fired that… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
“While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own… — David N. Elkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of… — James Balog Copy Share Image
In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I do feel that both visual artists and writers look out at the world in a similar way, and wonder at what… — Connie Wanek Copy Share Image
“The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the… — William Carlos WIlliams Copy Share Image
I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used… — Otis Blackwell Copy Share Image
What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through,… — Brian Austin Green Copy Share Image
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist… — Justin Chon Copy Share Image
One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that… — Moby Copy Share Image
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
With Michael Jackson, when he moved, it looked like a martial artist to me. He was quicker than other dancers, but he… — Shinsuke Nakamura Copy Share Image
“Epilogue Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Motion comics are a medium all their own. It is certainly not animation, in which a large number of artists do tens… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think there's very little interesting in art that is not transgressive in some way. And I don't think that's a very… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
