“If you want to master the art of the sentence, you must first accept a somewhat unpleasant truth--something a lot of writers… — June Casagrande Copy Share Image
Where I know I wanna go is being consistent on business, and that's just making another artist, my clothing line - capitalizing… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do… — Saif Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor.… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise;… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness,… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician —… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The people who successfully start independent businesses (franchises, I think are a different thing) do it because we have no real choice… — Seth Copy Share Image
That's what the best art does, it starts the conversation. What you may see in a scene or a line isn't what… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening… — Gail Ann Dorsey Copy Share Image
You can describe [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self] as a manifesto of sorts. I saw it… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
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“Just as Shakespeare filled his works with straightforward storylines, sex, violence, and bawdy jokes for the “groundlings” (the uneducated peasants who stood… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
God knows that we are all artists of life. One day, he gives us a hammer with which to make sculptures, another… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In our ascent we were often among the clouds hovering about the mountain, and for a while would be enveloped in fog… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, all my friends are musical wizards and in great bands, but yeah, it really skipped over me. It's one… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
I'd been asked by Takashi Murakami to collaborate on something, which was an honor for me. I was really pleased. And then… — Hiroshi Fujiwara Copy Share Image
“Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. This happens in any number of ways: beginning work is measured against the masterworks… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
In rock n' roll, we don't sell records at all like we used to. Yet the artist still has to pay to… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
Most of my work is very temporary, very provisional. You can take it with you or you can leave it. Which is… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister - a near relation, a… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Reality cannot be photographed or represented. We can only create a new reality. And my dilemma is how to make art out… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
The realization that The Art of Obscurity is my 25th solo album prompted me to do some deep thinking about where I… — Iain Matthews Copy Share Image
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I think being from Iran sharpened my eye as an art dealer. This is why, today, I think the true definition of… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
For a while, all the studios had their art-house divisions, but that went by the by pretty quickly. Now, they're really focusing… — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image
A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage,… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that's flawless. You aren't going to be able to buy the same diamond… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
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![“Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up…” quote by Nick Hornby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b0/nick-hornby-325_art_of-course-tucker-crowe-was-in-pain-when_2015950.png)
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