“Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master. — Oliver $ Copy Share Image
If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to… — Akon Copy Share Image
Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is… — Plato Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I realize it's about the artists and about the fans. Those are the people who truly have the power. It's like politics,… — David Banner Copy Share Image
A black belt is nothing more than a belt that goes around your waist. Being a black belt is a state of… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know… — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder… — Ian Brennan Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists,… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Fashion is every woman's language, and every woman's tool. Fashion is anatomy for me, creating your second skin is one of the… — Isabel Toledo Copy Share Image
My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual… — Lucien Bourjeily Copy Share Image
I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style. — Sean Paul Copy Share Image
Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English,… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
Born in the Village. My mom still lives on Bleeker Street. I went to the performing arts high school. — Hale Appleman Copy Share Image
... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996. — El-P Copy Share Image
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When I was an MP, I worked at the department where we gave honors to people from the arts world, I was… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
I don't know EDM artists or the albums. At first I thought it was all just one guy, some DJ called EDM. — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from… — DeWitt Henry Parker Copy Share Image
I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories. — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are. — Gunnar Nelson Copy Share Image
I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed… — Sally Kirkland Copy Share Image
Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art. — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
