When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
In France, disco was an artistic progression that might not have had the same social stakes. Also, the language barriers - like… — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup,… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness,… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
While 'The Endless Summer' poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man… — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
“Happiness is an art mastered by the very few. Genuinely happy people are as rare as Christians who believe in God.” — Albert Vigoleis Thelen Copy Share Image
A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I did the Art of Living course in Mumbai in 1996, I really didn't know what to expect. — Rhea Pillai Copy Share Image
I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain. — Cung Le Copy Share Image
Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but... I needed… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's incredible how much beauty exists in the world of music and how many artists you can really inspire with your own… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the… — Hugh Hopper Copy Share Image
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New… — Anna Camp Copy Share Image
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
