Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Art can’t decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it’s a tragic,… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art. — Jim James Copy Share Image
But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
“Uh, hey, I got a idea. Instead of us hanging around playing art critic 'til I get pinched by the man, how's… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I wanted to break the idea of what male performers are supposed to show, what performances girl groups are supposed to show.… — Lee Tae-min Copy Share Image
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The goal as an actor is to constantly surround yourself with amazing artists who challenge you and make you grow. — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression… — Nelsan Ellis Copy Share Image
I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
Acting is a psychological profession, and every character drains you emotionally, regardless of whether it is an intense art house movie or… — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
My favorite acting books are Stella Adler's 'The Art of Acting' and 'Sanford Meisner on Acting.' — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
“Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.” — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
My stepfather was in the navy, so I got to know a side of Chile that is not what you would expect… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists. — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school. — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people. — Julian Beever Copy Share Image
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
We're just not the type of artists that take anything for granted and just feel like, 'Oh yeah, you just know something… — Rozonda Thomas Copy Share Image
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“The art that speaks [truth] most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
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