Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
After intensive body building for eight years, I went to the U.S. for training. There, I learnt the art of wrestling. Later,… — The Great Khali Copy Share Image
Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
It's really the artist in me that loves the idea of an image and an image that provokes an emotion. — Jaime King Copy Share Image
The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself… — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
To brutally summarise a lot of scholarly texts, contemporary art is made possible by neoliberal capital, plus the Internet, biennials, art fairs,… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
“She was rare, few and far between She suspected he would be as well And the thought of two rare, few and… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The reality of recording, it's one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right,… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
“He glanced down at the movie poster art that had been skillfully airbrushed not his custom apron, thanks to Lani's interesting assistant,… — Donna Kauffman Copy Share Image
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
If a new artist comes, and he doesn't have a good record label to invest in him, then there is no point. — Guru Randhawa Copy Share Image
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
“Fuck me, how a woman can be so transparent and so full of shit at the same time is beyond me, but,… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs. — James Bay Copy Share Image
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math. — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The art that speaks [truth] most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made… — Van Deren Coke Copy Share Image
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're just not the type of artists that take anything for granted and just feel like, 'Oh yeah, you just know something… — Rozonda Thomas Copy Share Image
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“The world’s oldest ‘art’ (77,000 years old) comes from Blombos Cave on the southern coast of South Africa.” — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
In my opinion, my business runs better when my family is a part of it, and I get to see my wife… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
“He was defeated. Competitive him, who'd spent most of his life perfecting the art of winning. He'd been trounced by a woman.… — Becky Wade Copy Share Image
“Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image