I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live. — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential. — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and… — Nathan Parsons Copy Share Image
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form. — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and… — Kenneth Goff Copy Share Image
Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
“That, he thought, was the essential purpose of art—to capture the universal in the everyday, which was particular to their here and… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general. — Mija Copy Share Image
Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching… — Jason 'J' Brown Copy Share Image
“To Whom it May Inspire,” Austin wrote. “I, like many of you artists out there, constantly shift between two states. The first… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
My uncles represented a strength and a power I think that to a certain degree I looked up to. But from another… — Willie Herron Copy Share Image
As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Nature is a deep imitator. And as man is the prince of organisms he is master of adaptations. He is the artist… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image