As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
“Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one’s life, but at some point the dynamic reverses itself: life models, or… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“If a man liked his friends' painting or writing, I thought it was probably like those people who like their families, and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think at the end of the day you can do both: make money and stay true to yourself. But a lot… — Rahki Copy Share Image
The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The difference between email being identified as an art or a science is truly an individual decision based on the impact that… — Jeanniey Mullen Copy Share Image
Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
If you want to make a difference with art, which is a motive I perceive as questionable, then the single most stupid… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
“The political independence of a nation must not be confused with any intellectual isolation. The spiritual freedom, indeed, your own generous lives… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
“You must first reach a certain level in your own art before studying other arts. Too much looking around is not good… — Dan Johns Copy Share Image
Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work… — Hope Larson Copy Share Image
Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
There is a discrepancy of somebody going to an art dealer and promising what they'll make for the next three years. And… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the… — Catherine Ingram Copy Share Image
I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on… — Ruth Negga Copy Share Image
There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I've got a twin sister who's an artist and growing up I was always "the loud one." She's not actually quiet at… — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
Georges St. Pierre has the best takedowns and dominant wrestling ability, and he's a great athlete, but he's shown he can be… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
I am extremely happy. It's just an amazing feeling to be in this space at this stage of my life after all… — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
“...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. To make it about the… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an artist should do everything by himself… — JR Copy Share Image
Any art that you are playing based on effort, loses something. I think that most of the time it should be something… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“Do not expect redemption if you enter the world of art. Redemption is death to art. Tranquillity is the poison the artist… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
