People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it. — Banksy Copy Share Image
The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell. — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” —ÉMILE ZOLA” — Carol Eikleberry Copy Share Image
I was driving in a car on my way to football practice, and I was listening to the radio, and they had… — Charles Melton Copy Share Image
Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a… — Virgil Abloh Copy Share Image
The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it,… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I have my struggles. But I'm doing whatever it takes to be an artist, to be the best technical jumper I can… — Max Aaron Copy Share Image
What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“THE VIRTUE TRAP An artist must have downtime, time to do nothing. Defending our right to such time takes courage, conviction, and… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are.” — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its… — Manish Arora Copy Share Image
I was always a performing arts kid in general - but I felt like my ultimate goal was to be an actress… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
The first martial art my son learnt aged around ten was jiu-jitsu so he can already wrestle. I'd have no concerns about… — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
As a musician, you want to be your own favorite artist and be able to make the music that is an accumulation… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of… — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the art world, sentimentality and intimacy and the emotive side of lives are considered very uncool. There's nervousness around intimacy. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
“The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.' — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
If you're not educated to enjoy the arts, if you're not taken to a concert, or you don't hear something beautiful, you… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
