If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond. — Ray Conniff Copy Share Image
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The art of love? It's knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.” — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Art is never about provocation and never about human taste. Since the human being is not the measure for art, provocation cannot… — Jonathan Meese Copy Share Image
In 2008 it's easy to get huge before you have an album out with the Internet. I think that's great and you… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
What an artist worries about when he plans his pictures, is something... difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
My training in martial arts was kind of a crash course in how to look like a black belt. I know the… — William Zabka Copy Share Image
I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the… — Adam Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'm happy that the evolution of art in the past 25 years, and the place of art in global culture-and even finance-has… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
“ROBERT ROTH: Going against the tide, no matter how gracefully, will beat you up after a while — all artists know this.” — Greg Prato Copy Share Image
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime. — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
“Try to remember that artists in these catastrophic times, along with the serious scientists, are the only salvation for us, if there… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
The Internet is a big reason I've been successful so far. It's working for a lot of new wave artists, which I… — Lil Xan Copy Share Image
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“I avoid contemporary TV...politics...art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Nadine Gordimer came over just before she died. She didn't want to talk about books or the arts, but about the abuse… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
“You may play well or you may play badly; the important thing is that you should play truly.” — Mikhail Shchepkin Copy Share Image
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
“Let me say this as strongly as I can. Selling your art work or creations is not the easy way out or… — Julie Merrett Copy Share Image
Questlove and I - we were in high school with artists like Boyz II Men and Amel Larrieux. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
Kastles Stadium at The Wharf is a state of the art tennis facility and the great tennis fans of Washington come out… — Ilana Kloss Copy Share Image
My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism… — Nikki Jean Copy Share Image
