I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of Lillies knitting The loose train of thy… — John Milton Copy Share Image
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Because his [Damien Hirst] art is idea art - art drawn on the back of cigarette packets and beer mats, roughed out… — Gordon Burn Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to play guitar until I was 21, but from the moment I was good enough on guitar to… — Luke Combs Copy Share Image
Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There are issues that are being questioned that are fundamentally upsetting to me, deeply: immigration, funding for the arts, Planned Parenthood, and… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries.… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I've really only had one (dream) since I got into this business at 13 years old, which was to be in this… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I think younger artists are often "students" of the rock press. They have their favorite rock star interviews and know how they're… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed. — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you… — Leslie Bradshaw Copy Share Image
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Conversation lets you be an artist every time you open your mouth--or shut it. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The most important… — Margaret Shepherd Copy Share Image
“Like I said, it’s because all the performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When you give your all as an artist, and all people can talk about is what pants you're wearing, it's really frustrating. — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for… — Herwarth Walden Copy Share Image
I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond....a good feeling about… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
“If all the artists you loved changed you, they'd hack you up in little piece and you'd never get back together. That,… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness. — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
![“Because his [Damien Hirst] art is idea art - art drawn on the back of cigarette packets and beer mats, roughed out in airport departure lounges and the back of the taxis, usually delegated to and carried by others - this leaves Damien a lot of time for what might loosely be called socializing…” quote by Gordon Burn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ef3/gordon-burn-195211_art_because-his-damien-hirst-art-is-idea-art_276464.jpg)
