Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
When I first started, you could go to a college campus and it was not cool to wear a country artist's shirt… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!'… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to… — Robert Warren Copy Share Image
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
… an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts…a camp for semi-demented adults… Venice is like the… — Sara Davidson Copy Share Image
You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance.… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine." In order to even cut… — El-P Copy Share Image
Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist,… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
I switched up so that I could work 12-hour shifts at the firm on the weekends so I could have days free… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I started off just trying to make a wish list for myself. I wanted to work with people I really admire myself.… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
When you go back to the days when I was studying how to paint, some of the things that excited me most… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“such humble beginnings, where in his time his life would have been given no credence to be anything more than an illegitimate… — Hourly History Copy Share Image
There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section.… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of pressure that you get from being a popular artist, and I think in the past I put… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
All existing art was religious until perhaps a hundred years ago. Within that there's obviously been lots of room for manipulation. I… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
To gain confidence, constant practice is essential. Just as a musician needs to practice regularly to retain his touch, the watercolourist needs… — Robert A. Lovett Copy Share Image
I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
I open up my violin case every day, and have one of the great creations. It is very inspiring. It makes you… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
