I think ultimately, people are selfish in that department [blues], in a good way - the reason we're attracted to art is… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole,… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down… — Arno Hintjens Copy Share Image
What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art and viewed the exhibition of Picasso's sculptures, and I couldn't help but think about what… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, like any artist, when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was… — Nas Copy Share Image
What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime /… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally.… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I believe that art is a tool and that, like all tools, it has functions. I also think it is important to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second,… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get… — Tove Styrke Copy Share Image
Even when I illustrate multiple articles on the same person, the focus of the pieces are never the same, so I automatically… — Noma Bar Copy Share Image
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft,… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I would like to say a few things about that photo in 'Tatler'. I have no regrets. The article was about the… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Babymetal's music is something that no artist has attempted in the past, uniting people as one by crossing language barriers and national… — Suzuka Nakamoto Copy Share Image
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
O.P.N. has always been about reaching for some kind of liminal state in which opposing aesthetic forces become entangled and confused and… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
“crazy,” she’d said, “but I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
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![“It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not just the sound, but the emotion, the technique of the singing.” quote by Robert Davi](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/09b/robert-davi-17031_able_it-didn-t-feel-organic-and-tito-gobbi-wa_2689130.jpg)
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