Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Well I started out as a dancer, so I was used to this performing - performance arts. Started out getting used to… — Margaret Brennan Copy Share Image
The Internet might be killing the business for music labels, but it is working well for independent artists. I released my songs… — Sonu Kakkar Copy Share Image
... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood… — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, their own way of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Possibility and impossibility of things depends upon your flexibility and acceptance of reality: A bright future always knocks; when you start believing… — Asif Z Warsi Copy Share Image
It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I always knew from books and shows that the lives of circus artists are not easy, but spending time and learning from… — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Street art is about as religious as I get - that's my faith, that even if people screen it out and didn't… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I like a lot of older rock 'n' roll artists, like legends like Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. They really influenced me… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
I was driving home the other night, listening to the radio, and the guy filling in for Art Bell on Coast to… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner.… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Cartooning isn't really drawing, any more than talking is singing... The possible vocabulary of comics is by definition unlimited, the tactility of… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“Snow-melt in the stream: Mama Nature turning winter's storms into nourishment for the soil, fecundity, and beauty. This is what I must… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood,… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Above all, Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I really admire songwriters or any kind of writer, painter or artist that says, "I'm going to get up at 8 o'clock… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
With food, you're the artist; you put the colour in it, you present it to the table and it has the ability… — Anthony Warlow Copy Share Image
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists… — Rachael Price Copy Share Image
I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
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