As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that believed that art should be used as an instrument for social change. — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs. — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged. — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
“The writer is an infantryman. He knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy one day, one… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Artistic integrity is not a guest whom one may choose not to invite to a gala. She must be the first you… — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism.… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some… — Richard Howells Copy Share Image
Writing songs has always been my first and foremost love, and, you know, whether I continue to have success as an artist… — Thomas Rhett Copy Share Image
“CONCERTS IN TOWN “Summergarden: New Music for New York” The Museum of Modern Art turns to music every summer, hosting a variety… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You see it all the time in sports when aging stars hang on a little too long. I was an exception, so… — Jerome Bettis Copy Share Image
I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
“A writer or any artist can’t expect to be embraced by the people. I've done records where it seemed like no one… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art.… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
It's extremely important, a cappella groups get so easily pigeonholed into essentially just being a cover band, and we want to be… — Avi Kaplan Copy Share Image
Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art,… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking. — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Hidden in dreams are arts that haven’t been crafted, and songs that haven’t been chanted.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about… — Jim James Copy Share Image
There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing. — Dominic Cooper Copy Share Image
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