“And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages. — John Zorn Copy Share Image
...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I feel like I don't fit in. There's not a lot of outlets for urban music, for black artists who don't have… — August Alsina Copy Share Image
“Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.” — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
We realised that art, theatre, and music in Sarajevo were resistance at the deepest level. — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
“If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there is anything holy,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I went to a terrifying boarding school and everyone was a brilliant singer or musician or artist, and I wasn't good at… — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
“I think you are talented and passionate, Isabella. More than you think and less than you expect. But there are a lot… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen,… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“Art playing on its own disappearance and the disappearance of its object was still an art of great works. But art playing… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real. — La'Porsha Renae Copy Share Image
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences. — Will Youmans Copy Share Image
I was always interested in photography and other forms of art. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I feel there is a strong bond between artists and children and all other sacred fools. — Gottfried Helnwein Copy Share Image
I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
