O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people,… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography.… — Rondal Partridge Copy Share Image
“this art wasn’t exactly a novelty for him, and he shyly observed that, having nowhere to go and nothing to do, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
I get ticked off a lot because I don't think she [Faith Hill] gets the respect she deserves. I tell her all… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
I think if I hadn't had the dance background, it would have been much harder as a kid to be like, 'I'm… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
Women have always been healers. Cultural myths from around the world describe a time when only women knew the secrets of life… — Jeanne Achterberg Copy Share Image
To show a different side on 'Love & Hip Hop' and bring some validity to it and not just be ratchet, messy… — Omarion Copy Share Image
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In the armies, and among every ten men, there must be one of more life, of more heart, or at least of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
You must not get too possessive, especially in our profession, where you know things aren't going to be easy. You can either… — Jaya Bachchan Copy Share Image
“Can it be that the ultimate chapter of this new era of democratic freedom is going to be deformed by this growing… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art claims to be the largest in the western hemisphere. It's right, but I'm not too sure about… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share Image
There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible… — One9 Copy Share Image
I listen to music very intensely as well: When I listen to an artist I really love, I feel like I know… — Robyn Copy Share Image
You look at like the '70s, the messianic presence of the artist - it was very much about an audience gathering to… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
I am bowled over by the massive number of remarkable people who face down the fact that no, they are not going… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
“Oh, God, thou art the stagnant environment." All is quackery: these religions whose very existence depend on their failure, are so full… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first,… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of… — Bob Beamon Copy Share Image
My game was completely ground based and I didn't really use my hands, and now I feel my game has improved a… — Brandon Moreno Copy Share Image
“As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump ] would make history in so many ways because he is a candidate who eschewed the traditional arts of political… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
“But is the Mona Lisa really art? Well then, what about an undetectably perfect copy of the Mona Lisa? That comparison (however… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image