Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Someday I'm gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don't need it. — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing.… — Art Donovan Copy Share Image
I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta. — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
As an independent artist, there can be nothing better than the fact that your song will be played and heard in different… — Guru Randhawa Copy Share Image
The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This could be your big ticket,” he said. “You know what happens to you at art school?” I shook my head. “All… — Steve Hamilton Copy Share Image
“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along;… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
“In the space of a few generations a city with a population slightly less than that of present-day Stillwater, Oklahoma, produced the… — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“He considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual world. She knew, too, that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century. — John Rothenstein Copy Share Image
“Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong. — Helio Gracie Copy Share Image
The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession. — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art,… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it,… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings. — Walter Winchell Copy Share Image
I think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
“Weird, inexplicable stuff is already happening in life, whereas art should offer resolution.” — Joni Murphy Copy Share Image
“There might be a charm in the black arts section of the library, but black earth magic used nasty ingredients—like indispensable people… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on… — Banksy Copy Share Image
There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its… — Fairfield Porter Copy Share Image
Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it… — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
