In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Yeah, every artist I think should look at themselves as a brand because the more appealing your brand is, the more money… — Lil Jon Copy Share Image
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
“Chetta believed that most people who worked in the arts were high-functioning schizophrenics, and she was no different.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless. — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
“The toughest part has been getting used to being known. I've always been the guy in the background, being the actual artist… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
“Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the… — Piet Hein Copy Share Image
People often say, 'Ah, ultimate fighting is so violent,' but it's rooted in martial arts. Martial arts incarnate respect. You can't walk… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
“I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves,… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
At one point cinema and photography weren't treated as art. Now it's crazy to think they're not. The key question is "What… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be where I am without people giving me an opportunity and a platform. I feel like that's what I should… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
I've benefited enormously from an arts education and a music education in New York. When they cut the programs for funding, I… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age… sympathy as a fine… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred… — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard,… — Liz Prince Copy Share Image
It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist! — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
From Uber and Lyft drivers to financial advisors to local artists, we should support workers' freedom and our gig economy. — Young Kim Copy Share Image
We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It's global. It's the world telling some artists they're doing a good job, because you get an award if you sell, so… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do. — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the… — Dustin Yellin Copy Share Image
You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be… — Alfredo Kraus Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing. — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to… — Starsmith Copy Share Image
“A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being” — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
