It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I never wanted us to be an exercise in nostalgia, living in the shadow of other artists. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
I've worn pretty much every hat in the beauty industry, from blogger to makeup artist to YouTube influencer to Instagram influencer to… — Huda Kattan Copy Share Image
I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm truly excited to align with Art.co.uk and share with the world the wondrous sites and travels I've experienced. — Nigel Barker Copy Share Image
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life. — Matt Sorum Copy Share Image
Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world… — Frank Morgan Copy Share Image
None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“That’s not really your business, is it?” I snapped, doing that going-on-the-offense thing I do when I panic. “I’m not sure what… — Amelia C. Gormley Copy Share Image
The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
“What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of… — Albert M. Wolters Copy Share Image
For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art.… — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new. — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness,… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it. — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we… — JR Copy Share Image
The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
“Models need to be judged by what they eliminate as much as by what they include—like stone carving, the art is in… — John H. Miller Copy Share Image
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none. — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
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