There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section.… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of pressure that you get from being a popular artist, and I think in the past I put… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the… — Edgar Allen Poe Copy Share Image
Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
All existing art was religious until perhaps a hundred years ago. Within that there's obviously been lots of room for manipulation. I… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My favorite all-time artist... I would say, I think that must be Sigur Ros, I love that band. It's like going to… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
“I’m an artist. I’m a cave painter. Archaeologists and art critics of the future are going to call me a genius. They’re… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I paved the way for a lot of white artists now that don’t have to deal with the stigma of being a… — Jon B Copy Share Image
When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, and you put out a record - most artists only have one or two hit records - that… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“Now I believe that true lasting change and sustainability--cultural or otherwise--must rely on something more ancient and universal: art--any form that evokes… — Amy Irvine Copy Share Image
Times are completely different now. If you're a brand new artist with a record you want to release to the masses, I… — Ashanti Copy Share Image
The artist is a combination of what's happened to them in their lives and how it's filtered through the way they think.… — Philip Rosenthal Copy Share Image
My mom went to jail a few days before my birthday and my birthday is on November 8th my sister is in… — Shay Copy Share Image
I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I consider that sex is part of life as much as architecture, fashion, art or food. Sex is life, simple. And I… — Olivier Zahm Copy Share Image
Ru and I have been best friends since, well, let's just say they used the telegraph when we first met. Being able… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
My idea about the role of artists is to get people to look at things in a way that's different than the… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting… — Scott Frank Copy Share Image
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry of life in their own way, just like writers deal with archetypes. There… — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
