Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a… — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. — Jean-Francois Chevrier Copy Share Image
Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about… — Sean Paul Copy Share Image
“There were no words to describe her, nor were there ones I could coherently form in the moment; she was a work… — Raine Miller Copy Share Image
Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I… — Felix Gonzalez-Torres Copy Share Image
When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't like to reveal anything about my personal relationships with artists because it is so sacred to me, but I will… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
“The transgressive quality of love is the transgressive quality of art ... From the Pre-Raphaelites till now, the avant-garde has always been… — Rod Dubey Copy Share Image
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.” — Kayla Rae Whitaker Copy Share Image
I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist,… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I had to learn, because as an artist myself, an artist owns that right to protect their interest of how they want… — Bryce Wilson Copy Share Image
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'd hit thirty, I'd sort of failed as a musician, I'd failed as an artist I felt at the time. — Paul Kaye Copy Share Image
I feel self-conscious for even having met so many other band people and artists, I don't want to be that artist that… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Art uses many different styles, but his voice is very consistent. He's always concise and clever and funny. That's true of somebody… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image