I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point. — Rondal Partridge Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others. — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple... — Carlson Gracie Copy Share Image
For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days. — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
“There might be a charm in the black arts section of the library, but black earth magic used nasty ingredients—like indispensable people… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings. — Walter Winchell Copy Share Image
Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I believe in myself and my art so much. I've always trusted destiny. Wherever it takes me, I just work damn hard… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art. — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“to study the ambitions and appetites of a family launched upon the modern world, making superhuman efforts but always failing because of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
People use the word 'fearless' a lot, but there's a genuine fearlessness that courses through the veins of New York's queer art… — Bridget Everett Copy Share Image
I created my own concept art and went in and did a 90-minute presentation that cost me a lot of money.And, the… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work… — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I have always felt the word 'advertising' is either a diminutive or derogatory term that kind of goes with stuff people don't… — Lee Clow Copy Share Image
Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life. — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development. — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
