“for journalists words are simply tokens to be arranged and rearranged indifferently. But for an artist there can be only one ideal… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time… — Maxine Powell Copy Share Image
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.” — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There's a real power in collaboration. I've found that in collaborating while making art, it takes you to a place that you… — Robin Standefer Copy Share Image
Professional wrestling... is no different than a Broadway play except that in a Broadway play, actors are using dialogue to tell a… — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even with so many artists using auto-tune, there's still a growing group of artists rising up and going in the opposite direction,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown… — Aleksa Palladino Copy Share Image
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, 'You're signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!' — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good… — Hulk Hogan Copy Share Image
It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make… — John Porcellino Copy Share Image
The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“the deep rich notes of the cello pick up on a solo and quickly catch my attention. Each note tugs at my… — Samantha Armstrong Copy Share Image
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art… — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
I think one of the big mistakes people make is to have fame as one of their main goals. That is the… — Hope Sandoval Copy Share Image
The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even… — SonReal Copy Share Image
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
