“It is a matter of artistic instinct. In his own thoughts and feelings and way of doing things an actor is worth… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off… — William Attwood Copy Share Image
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I think attempting to make art is a utopian process in itself, definitely. Nothing I do is ever equal to the ideas… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“You don't create or write to be successful; you don't create or paint to be famous or to increase your wealth. You… — Kelly Martin Copy Share Image
Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I suppose that was an example of close attention to detail that is common to writers and artists. It is imperative, whether… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
I was working with two prolific directors Raj Kapoor and Satyajit Ray at the same time. It was an amazing experience to… — Simi Garewal Copy Share Image
The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work; it's not because of this… — D.A. Wallach Copy Share Image
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I'd have to say that the things that mean the most to me are the examples of original comic art that I'm… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and… — Michael Lang Copy Share Image
Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“… the conjunction of Beethoven’s last symphonic masterpiece with crucial works or events in the lives of so many other outstanding artists… — Harvey Sachs Copy Share Image
Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
If I can reach the guy in Alabama that hunts, and he hears that song, and he sees me - like, he's… — Luke Combs Copy Share Image
It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life…Live simply. Don’t… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
When I look at my childhood art, it's the same. It's animals dressed up as people in patterned clothing. It basically looked… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process… — Michael Bell Copy Share Image
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no… — William Morris Copy Share Image
There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Prodigies! Geniuses! Artists! The lumer-lumpen are some of the most sensitive, the most brilliant, the wisest creatures on the earth or inside… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mystery is great, that's what art is and I think when you can leave your imagination to grow, it's good. I just… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image