I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Well, within my business, visual art, the intake is 75 per cent female and yet you look at who has showed their… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that.… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
“It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to… — Paul Burch Copy Share Image
“... but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators… — Pauline Gedge Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germany… Most of our male colleagues… — Hannah Hoch Copy Share Image
Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
“Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something--a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites… — Nadine C. Keels Copy Share Image
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
“Everyone should have a hippie painter anarchist in their lives. It's the guys in silvered aviators with guns that you've got to… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better… — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work,… — Common Copy Share Image
In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance? — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician.… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
There are some millennial artists that I totally get and understand, and I know what they're talking about. People who I've worked… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that… — Donald Sultan Copy Share Image
“We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Bad Religion took a long time to develop into gold-record-status artists. Along the way we learned and applied our knowledge, and Atlantic… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow.… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
I had a reporter ask me how much I weigh. I said to him, 'You go first: How much do you weigh?'… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure. — Don Cornelius Copy Share Image
Back in the day, artists could be mysterious. Now, people want to know and hear everything about you. They want to see… — Kandi Burruss Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of… — Mikhail Sholokhov Copy Share Image
Though there are many types of people, leaders, followers, business men, artists, spiritual leaders, and so on, the fact remains that a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing that got me started on Twitter was just basically pressure from management and the record company saying, 'Hey, this is… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
“The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
