The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music -… — Tony Conrad Copy Share Image
In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined.… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
You want to be taken seriously as an artist and not just known as 'that girl wrestler who sings.' So you want… — Mickie James Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually… — Alex Raymond Copy Share Image
If there is a woman filmmaker or a woman artist, the issue of gender is floating very close to their work... It… — Rahul Roy Copy Share Image
Most artists say that they want to make the ultimate statement. I certainly do, but I don't mind people seeing all of… — Van Hunt Copy Share Image
“For a moment she studied the sketch. It had been done in pencil and the artist was very skilled. The single sharp… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
For me, I don't really feel like I have any particular main influences or artists that I pull from; it's more of… — Tei Shi Copy Share Image
“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (1993) is a work which can at first glance be read as nothing more than two… — Nicholas Serota Copy Share Image
“Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I absolutely demand of you and everyone I know that they be widely read in every damn field there is; in every… — Annie Spence Copy Share Image
“The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing for me is a challenge. I'm not happy, creatively, unless I'm faced with a challenge. So,… — Ksenia Solo Copy Share Image
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
“Advertising is a craft executed by people who aspire to be artists, but is assessed by those who aspire to be scientists.… — Luke Sullivan Copy Share Image
I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
When you are a young actor, you're imbued with the high purpose of your art. You think, 'They hire me for my… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They… — Davy Jones Copy Share Image
Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait,… — Jake Owen Copy Share Image
It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for… — John Currin Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Music is an art that goes well beyond science. Proof can be found in the huge amount of studies that have been… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“This is one of the chief differences between a child's experience of a favorite book and an educated adult's. For the adult,… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
The population increasing, some of it could be in countries we haven't thought of making art in. I've never entertained making comedy… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Hopefully this is going to be a trend, the beginning of a movement to reclaim theater for the artist and not commerce.… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
