The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
It's a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist. — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was so compelled by artists whose looks were inseparable from their music. Bjork was my hero. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I am more likely to get paid for my art if it's presented alongside a white artist, so the questions around value… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I got involved with an organization called Artists for a New South Africa. One of its… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I grew up hearing everyone tell me 'God loves you'. I would say big deal, God loves everybody. That don't make me… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession. — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The purpose of VEVO is to continue the tradition of corporations preventing artists from making money on their art. — Poppy Copy Share Image
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.” — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
