Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“show them, not in reasoning but in life itself, the joy of general union beyond the barriers set up by life itself” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is… — Paterson Ewen Copy Share Image
I have worked with a lot of great artists, including some of my heroes like Michael Golden, George Perez, and Jose Garcia… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
Beyonce is such a visual artist. This was just trying to figure out another side to her that could be fun and… — Bryce Wilson Copy Share Image
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It's absolutely different. The whole situation… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that I'm a consummate live artist. Album work is kind of just like quilt weaving or something. But live… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
“...Mathematics and music are at the opposite poles of the human spirit. These two antipodes confine and determine all creative and spiritual… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process. — Mary Beth McKenzie Copy Share Image
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I am so blessed to do what I love to do, but becoming a solo artist terrified me! — LeToya Luckett Copy Share Image
“If you could explain something perfectly, then you’d never need art.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
