I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos. — Common Copy Share Image
“Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes. — Margaret Hughes Copy Share Image
Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance. — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
To be a songwriter-singer means the songs come from deep within, and you treat them as an artist, with that much respect.… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I came into my own, you might say, in terms of putting out my first record quite late in life. And yet… — Pegi Young Copy Share Image
“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
'Deadwood' was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything I've ever wanted to do as an actor as an… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying,… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I think any information about any type of art form, it's always the right time. But since the last one, I could… — Jeff Mills Copy Share Image
The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not only between us… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more. — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live? — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
The money from every unit being sold is what I feel every artist should see. — Rakim Copy Share Image
It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“We make art. We do not feel the need to cut things apart to see what they're made of.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
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