I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer,… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
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
“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
Like William Morris, Joe Hollis asks us to perceive paradise gardening as a juncture where artfulness directly serves life. In fact, we… — Jim Nollman Copy Share Image
“And as the recession continues and our prospects look bleaker and bleaker, I’m excited. I look to the past to see what… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist.… — Nelly Copy Share Image
Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis,… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. And… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten,… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump ] would make history in so many ways because he is a candidate who eschewed the traditional arts of political… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
“But is the Mona Lisa really art? Well then, what about an undetectably perfect copy of the Mona Lisa? That comparison (however… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed...… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
“There's a great body of people who flower at night, who feel night is their time. Night is the time people truly… — John Crosby Copy Share Image
I deeply appreciate the CSA and its initiatives to build equity in the industry by giving a platform to marginalized artists and… — Brian Michael Smith Copy Share Image
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind… — David Rasche Copy Share Image
“Buch Der Lieder: Lyrisches Intermezzo: ‘Es liegt der heisse Sommer’ There lies the heat of summer On your cheek’s lovely art: There… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Jimmy Iovine, he pretty much started off as an engineer and a producer, and then he started up a label. Then he… — Mike Will Made It Copy Share Image
“Tell me something boss. What do you think is the highest form of art? 'Literature," he answered without hesitation. 'Painters and sculptors… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively.… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
For me, being Christian Armenian, born into the Islamic culture in Iran and then, at the age of 13, being sent to… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image