When I was 12 years old, I got involved with an organization called Artists for a New South Africa. One of its… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“The real reality is there, but everything you KNOW about “it” is in your mind and your to do with as you… — Malaclypse the Younger Copy Share Image
A lot of people I know blew through their trust funds paying for their friends' art - films and records and stuff… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example. — Duane Ludwig Copy Share Image
“To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's hard to imagine a man more capable of living in his own cocoon than Levin. Art creates a certain familiarity with… — Heather Rose Copy Share Image
Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form,… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
For me, it's about making art that's not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn't want to just stay above the fray. Prince… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“A man who is in the habit of smiling in the glass at his handsome face and stalwart figure, if you shew… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
I've always viewed my career with some suspicion, like I don't want to count on it to be the only thing I… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
“Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm… — Music Copy Share Image
Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command… — Antoni Zygmund Copy Share Image
It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are… — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
“Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood, Tying thine ear to no tongue but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to… — Kelly McGillis Copy Share Image
A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to one's work. — Jillian Mayer Copy Share Image
“at its essence theology is the art of gospelizing, that is, making the gospel shape our thinking, praying, preaching, teaching, and ministering… — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a good artist. --- I can create colors in my life to make it beautiful. Be yours and nothing would… — Jehan Fostanes Nayga Copy Share Image
'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also. — Friedrich Holderlin Copy Share Image
I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think… — Kaytranada Copy Share Image
Some artists can work under one guise, whether it's a name or a band or doing film soundtracks, put all of their… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I did an art foundation course, and I knew I wanted to do something in a creative field. And fashion just seemed… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
“There’s something about being naïve. Really interesting things come because you don’t know what the rules are, what you can and can’t… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
