Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
“the first rule—he calls it the rule of rules—is the art of challenging what is appealing.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think it's artist's role to give and to receive and the people to give it, hear it, vibe on it, and… — Narada Michael Walden Copy Share Image
I don't have to work with superstars - I want to work with cool artists that make super music. — J Balvin Copy Share Image
“Follow your heart as long as you live...Bring your whole heart towards excellence...And no limit may be set to art.” — The Instruction of Ptahhotop Copy Share Image
The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, 'My kid could do this,' and 'We don’t get it. What’s modern art? Blah,… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
“The Queen, bless her heart, has cultivated procrastination to a degree which is really an art--when one is vexed, as I fear… — Arthur Penn Copy Share Image
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
I went to SG Formula and became Formula Renault 2.0 Champion. I went then to ART in Formula 3 and became Champion.… — Romain Grosjean Copy Share Image
Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow… — Tyga Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it. — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
I briefly studied martial arts in college and realised that I might not be a great fighter physically, but it gave me… — Nushrat Bharucha Copy Share Image
Sticks &d Stones are hard on bones Aimed with angry art Words can sting like anything But silence breaks the heart — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We [artists] aren't people, not the way most people are. We're just...carriers. Little boats bringing goods from foreign lands.” — Sam Starbuck Copy Share Image
I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression. — Leonid Afremov Copy Share Image
“The “Art Nouveau” appeal of smoking: manufacture your own pneuma, spirit. “I’m alive.” “I’m decorative.” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
You can't have artistic freedom if you have to think about seven different aspects of your own job all the time. It… — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was… — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin. — Bess Truman Copy Share Image
The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival. — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If a hip-hop artist can get on stage and entertain an arena full of 30,000 people and keep their attention for 45… — Redman Copy Share Image
It´s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance… — Marcus Allen Copy Share Image
Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
“It should be the ambition of every true artist to transform wounds and traumas into masterpieces.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image