I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted… — Moby Copy Share Image
Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object. — Mary Fairfax Copy Share Image
I love to learn, and that's the really cool thing about martial arts - you're always learning new things. — Rose Namajunas Copy Share Image
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Tom Hardy is such a good egg. He's a total teddy bear. He loves his dogs and his kids. He's a true… — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
“The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“But it’s not something new what makes you special and authentic, is what you bring to the table. Your distinct voice. Your… — Orge Castellano Copy Share Image
More than 700 years ago, the Song Dynasty artist Zheng Sixiao created perhaps the most beautiful image of orchids ever painted, 'Ink… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
I couldn't believe there was going to be a show called 'Atlanta,' because that's my favorite city in the country. It's where… — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
“God, O God, where art thou? Thou art as distant to me as the lady combing rice in the Yunnan Province of… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“It's of some interest that the lively arts of the millenial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It's… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“is no great with Thee, there is no small, For Thou art all, and fillest all in all.” — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom?… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel… — Tweet Copy Share Image
Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find… — Wayne McGregor Copy Share Image
Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting,… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with. — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured. — Dua Lipa Copy Share Image
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in… — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
“Character, that subtle art, disappeared among them during those days and nights, existed only in a book or on a painted wall.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart. — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change. — John Kani Copy Share Image
“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive, ...” — JJ Abrams Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves. — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Choose not to waste your talent or skills. Remember, whatever you don’t use you lose. Whatever gift you have in you. Choose… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image