Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
Art is the essence of beauty. The artist, a mute that practiced crying until he managed to shout free of dissonance. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“Art has their ability to create their own meaning and artist is someone who interpret it.” — ASAID Copy Share Image
Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role,… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
David Bowie is kind of the pioneer of glam rock. Not just for music, but just his overall, how he incorporates fashion… — BØRNS Copy Share Image
Actually, for me, I really love to do action movie. You know, most people, they know, they thought that I am a… — Li Bingbing Copy Share Image
Cultures in general are led by people who make decisions that are more geared toward what they want to see than what… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist. — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
“Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil, or it's all been done before? Make good art.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there. — Syd Copy Share Image
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I love LeSean McCoy and Le'Veon Bell - watching kind of the art form of which they run the football with, I… — Aaron Boone Copy Share Image
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I haven't studied art and I haven't studied typography, but I've still gone out and done it. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect… — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Art doesn't have to make sense, little dhamphir. Besides, I'm supposed to be crazy, right?” — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty. — Tamannaah Copy Share Image
I hate it when people call me a cage fighter. I'm a mixed martial artist. But people take one look at what… — Michael Bisping Copy Share Image
Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate. — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us,… — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
Nicki Minaj is one of those rare artists who get the social aspect of their career. She interacts with her fans. She… — Karen Civil Copy Share Image
“If we, citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice out imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
I love the type of music that comes out of Miami, but it's not the artist that I want to be. — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
In Brazil, when you say you're going to be an artist you always get that point of view that this is a… — Rodrigo Santoro Copy Share Image
