I'm in the art world so I use the art world a lot - or art world people as actors. I've also… — Michel Auder Copy Share Image
Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own… — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique worlds, and there… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
I don't think ever before in the whole of human history has so much art been made, bought, and sold. It's a… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
I've been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I thought for a long time that within art, that you would come up with an idea, you would labor over it… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
“Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The choice is yours.Either way, I will be faultless. So ask yourself, would you rather take credit for an eyesore or for… — Cayla Kluver Copy Share Image
If an artist has the possibility to contact an infinitely larger public through the pages of a publication, he should try to… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've heard pop artists do some Christmas songs, and I haven't fully cared for them. They weren't the traditional… — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things.… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been… — Cory Arcangel Copy Share Image
Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
“I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree... Yet, O my palm-tree, be… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music… — Johnny Reid Copy Share Image
The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
What I am most proud of with the book On to the Next Dream is how I turned an intensely emotional experience… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
There is a Nina Simone quote, 'It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.' This quote is everything to me and… — Raye Copy Share Image
There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
“This is not a con game in the criminal sense, in which con artists deliberately dupe the suckers. Instead it's a form… — David F. Labaree Copy Share Image
“HOWEVER skilled and strong art thou, my foe, However fierce is thy relentless hate Though firm thy hand, and strong thy aim… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image