Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Selling out had never been a problem before because no one had wanted to buy. Why are we kneecapping ourselves with artistic… — Matthew De Abaitua Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist,… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Whenever I was presented with hardships - trauma, pain, heartbreak, confusion - I, like so many creatives, turned to my art as… — Raye Copy Share Image
What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist. As soon as I said to myself, 'Oh… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
“He was learning to live on several planes at once. The art of it was to forget everything except the ground you… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“I was sitting with the rest of my college graduating class listening to the commencement speaker prepare us for life after graduation,… — Doug Lansky Copy Share Image
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible… — Max Depree Copy Share Image
As the times are changing, you don't hear as many sample issues with rap artists. Part of that has to do with… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder. — Joseph Cornell Copy Share Image
No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
“True artists do not create to fish for compliments and praises. They create to express the love they have for their craft.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Like the bioluminescent creatures of the deep sea produce their own light I also have the ability to create my own light… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
I think great art poses questions and doesn't necessarily give answers and solutions - that's not what I'm trying to do. — Kano Copy Share Image
The difference between a successful fighter and the rest is that the successful fighter is smarter. Believe me, the best mixed martial… — Dan Hardy Copy Share Image
Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career. — Ben Watt Copy Share Image
Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
“I got into Jillian's Mercedes and drove back across the bridge to wait for my art installation. Which never showed up. Hey,… — Alice Clayton Copy Share Image
A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Business capabilities enable strategic communication and execution’ it’s part of art and part of science.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress. — Simone Biles Copy Share Image
Every artist can actually say that, that the overseas community appreciates the culture of hip-hop more, really, rather than over here. So… — Redman Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anyone approaching art without the joy of experimentation. The joy of it is inherent... and that is how you… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
