Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
“The stupidity/pleasure axis I apply to popular artists: how much pleasure they give versus how stupid one has to become to receive… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I've argued for a much less instrumentalist politicized approach, freeing up the arts and enabling them to deliver high-quality projects. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion, — George Inness Copy Share Image
I started doing martial arts when I was a kid. I don't often get that kind of role, although I get to… — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
“When he was still a kid, he’d figured out that transforming the emotions you didn’t want into art was best way to… — C. Morgan Babst Copy Share Image
I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I… — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The art of Navigation demonstrates how, by the shortest good way, by the aptest direction, and in the shortest time, a sufficient… — John Dee Copy Share Image
“Monsieur Girard grinned at the effect his story had had, and moved on, grunting disparagingly at another student’s efforts. As he approached… — Lisa Cach Copy Share Image
Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I think that, right now, I am travelling in many different directions in my mind, on where I wanted to be. So… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't… — Bono Copy Share Image
Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going. — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grows without the thorn” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“good art illustrates anything at all, it’s likely to be a story you didn’t even know needed telling.” — David Salle Copy Share Image
I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
“We are our own art. If everything else fails, it’s all we have. And that’s pretty great.” — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course. — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“A car crash could be considered art, and I’d like to install one in a museum. Helmets would be sold at the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
“...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead.” — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean?… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that. — James Bay Copy Share Image
Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
