Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
Each day I record I'm always doing something different that I've never done. So I feel like I'm a new artist every… — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The challenge is to balance the technical elements and what is required of us with being artists and telling a story. — Tessa Virtue Copy Share Image
That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos. — Ursula Nordstrom Copy Share Image
I've said the Grammys messed up metal because it's not on TV. What I'm saying is when you're in a metal category,… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What makes 'Maybach Music V' so special was, of course, I put the album out celebrating my daughter's birthday as well, and… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out,… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.” — Kayla Rae Whitaker Copy Share Image
For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating. — David Milch Copy Share Image
I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say,… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it… — Murray Leinster Copy Share Image
It is a fact that each song an artist creates is unique and although fans tend to be loyal, ultimately the quality… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of opportunities to grow inside and out as a performer, artist, and a woman. — Mickie James Copy Share Image
I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two. — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Living in the favourable and unfavourable situation is called part of life.but smiling in all those situations is called art of life — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Through art, man has long transcended his flight, his conscience. Through war, he cancelled them. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“the book takes rank with those books which are bits of life rather than products of art.” — Richard Henry Dana Jr Copy Share Image
Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited; yet such paintings are… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
“Diplomacy may very well be the art of manipulating secrets. What would any negotiation come to, were not there secrets to either… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
