Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about… — Truth Hurts Copy Share Image
Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on… — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
For me music is pretty personal. I generally listen to it alone, and I've never been a lover of concerts. So I… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
I think it is important to surround myself with artists who share the same goals and aspirations. This way, I am constantly… — Ravyn Lenae Copy Share Image
When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck,… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
There are three people's careers I'd like to meld together into my own... Jay Z's for his business mindset, Macklemore's hustle as… — CJ Fly Copy Share Image
Walking into the studio making 'Scared Hearts Club,' it was important for us as artists to write a joyful record, but using… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
“The hours tick by as I lie in bed. Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to… — Ashley Earley Copy Share Image
“When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“I see many people who disguise themselves. I know some people who say, “I’m an artist, I’m very creative, I’m different from… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There were counter-protests, of course, and in the end Mapplethorpe’s work was exhibited, but the message to the arts community was clear:… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do.… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to… — Sviatoslav Richter Copy Share Image
The people love when you give them a part of you. You know what I mean? Those are the most successful artists.… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“This book by Dr. Yasuda, while ostensibly about haiku, in reality penetrates deeply into the totality of this living spirit of Japan.… — Kenneth Yasuda Copy Share Image
It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
“To know when to quit. Whether to give up--this is often the question facing the gambler. No one is taught the art… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Life scars the writer but he is not without weapons of vengeance. The art of fiction is a prism that he can… — Kerima Polotan Copy Share Image
Clothes are only completed when somebody actually wears them. If they were art, they could be more abstract. As long as something… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
The only thing that I am concerned with in life is being an artist .. I had to suppress for so many… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I… — Drake Copy Share Image
I think that I have grown a lot as an artist. I have been writing about my experiences of love and overcoming… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
So much of the hubris that surrounded conceptual art in the 1950s through '70s was that it had this arrogant presupposition that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Branding is a lot of things, but one thing it's not is soft. When you brand, rebrand or brand-diggity, ask yourself one… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image