great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure… — Jean-Pierre Melville Copy Share Image
“Art is made by those who consider themselves to have failed at whatever isn’t art. And of course it is loved as… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I would just want to say thank you, I love you, I appreciate so much the support that you all give me.… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. Why is this… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War,… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
You know, women are so much cooler than guys because we can do more martial arts. Martial arts are pretty much made… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
As someone that really likes painting and visual art but also likes video and movies and also music and recording and style… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a musical career was… — Charlie Fink Copy Share Image
“It’s of some interest that the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It’s… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
“The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and… — Bryan Ward-Perkins Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
“What art thou?' Nothing. That's the answer. Nothing. In the heart of hearts- Nothing! So of course you can't stand that and… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Yet, in the middle of all this grief, I realize there’s a part of me clinical enough to want to document it.… — Kirsty Eagar Copy Share Image
I'm trying to inspire as many people as I can. I want the viewer to enjoy the art and I want the… — Nathan Sawaya Copy Share Image
When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels,… — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
Ever since I can remember, I drew, and visual arts have been my main way to express myself. I like dancing, although… — Hunter Schafer Copy Share Image
“If you find yourself pulled beyond all practicality toward doing something -- writing poetry, building a business, restoring old cars, planting a… — Joan Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted… — David Salle Copy Share Image
It's not always about working with the hottest artist. I sometimes go for challenges although people look at me strangely like, 'Why… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
For me acting is a passion and an art, and always will only be that. I don't have any rules when it… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
We are passionate about making it so that users enjoy the music that they want to enjoy but at the same time… — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
“Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The ride to Alicante had been like something out of a dream, or a cheesy romance novel. The two of them astride… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
