[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and… — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the fresh load of guests would turn up before we had got rid of the previous group, and the chaos was… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
Growing up with a punk-rock background and being an artist all my life, tattooing was something that naturally came to me, I… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There is a universal reservoir, the source of all knowledge, which is the same for the arts and sciences as for philosophy… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“Entitlement is not a friend of art. Work is. Pain is. Pain is that blessed and despised universal experience that creates more… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Thereafter he gave up on a career in the arts and filled a succession of unsuitable vacancies and equally unsuitable women, falling… — Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question Copy Share Image
The power of your audience is in the hand of the artist now via all the media - Facebook and Twitter and… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm making entertainment, but I'm making art. This is my art. Hopefully, it's profitable, hopefully it makes money, but at the end… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's… — Nick Carter Copy Share Image
By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I see a lot of similarity between Bengali and Malayalam films regarding the basic emotions, the craftsmanship, art and performance. I also… — Prosenjit Chatterjee Copy Share Image
Growing up, my inspirations were Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, all these martial arts legends. I wanted to express my talent on screen… — Tiger Shroff Copy Share Image
Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
In college, this cheerleader put me on to this artist called Kimbra, and that was huge to me because that's the first… — Masego Copy Share Image
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to… — Horace Copy Share Image
My parentage set me up to want to make a life of my own in the arts, but also contributed to my… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon… — Brian Sewell Copy Share Image
With a film you go with the script that's already written. And I've never thought of a project, a film that would… — Charlotte Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
Part of being an artist is that you are achingly self-conscious about every aesthetic decision you make, and taste is at its… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“Given two works of artistic majesty, otherwise weighted equally, we will give greater acclaim to the one who did it first. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I was very new to the sport when I entered 'The Ultimate Fighter' and basically got by on my athletic ability and… — Ryan Bader Copy Share Image
I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image