To be a great artist, you have to know yourself, set your sights high and work very hard. — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
Ring sense is an art, a gift from God that flows out of a fighter like a great painting flows out of… — Ray Arcel Copy Share Image
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to… — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
I don't aestheticize anything. I don't even use lights. The working girls do one thing all day: They make themselves pretty. That's… — Michael Glawogger Copy Share Image
Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement… — John Constable Copy Share Image
In the 70s I started doing my Big Night Out on stage when I was at art school. A friend of mine… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Many other artists who sing about hope think that it is something every single person carries within himself. I'm not so sure… — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion — Isaac Albeniz Copy Share Image
You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
There are some artists who are doing some good music, especially those who are independent, but with labels, I say that I… — Neha Bhasin Copy Share Image
I would think, as an artist, it's inescapable that you'll be affected by the world around you. — Dave Filoni Copy Share Image
Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
I think it's good that producers are showing more ways to show their artistry and be more the artist, you know? Not… — Mustard Copy Share Image
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I don't see a problem with looking at women as beautiful objects. I'm an artist. I don't know how to paint, but… — Too Short Copy Share Image
“Wonderful craftsmanship, Simon decided with the expert eye of one who had played enough computer games to know art when he saw… — Sorin Suciu Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I respect cats that can rap and everything, but the artist that inspires me is Turf Talk. — E-40 Copy Share Image
With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
When any artist performs for students, it automatically means they are getting a young crowd. — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on… — Kano Jigoro Copy Share Image
“When, as a woman, you make yourself the work of art, and when you are then what everyone looks at, then whatever… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
