“Difference making, by its very nature, is the art of taking something good and making it better. It’s an act of fine-tuning,… — David Sturt Copy Share Image
The first artist whose music I really got into was Paolo Nutini. When his album 'Sunny Side Up' came out, I think… — Lewis Capaldi Copy Share Image
I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“The world is unfathomable and mysterious, just as we all are. The art of the warrior consists of reconciling the terror of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“...to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfulness and art, have an effect far… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“...et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)” — Ovid Copy Share Image
When you're making your living as a writer or an artist or a musician, you kind of live in a trance. You're… — Stephen R. Bissette Copy Share Image
“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from… — Mya Copy Share Image
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I prefer to be out of the way, not because of an insecurity or shyness but because I think art is at… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Is the mainstream becoming more queer? Or is it the opposite? That artists like me are mainstreaming queer music? — Shura Copy Share Image
Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
My uncle is a martial artist, and in the early '80s, he made a kung fu flick with director Charlie Ahearn. — Michael Che Copy Share Image
“sacred is the task of the artist when he undertakes to paint the life of the People. Falsification here is far more… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I try to create an image to suit my music. These days, you have to create your own personal brand as an… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I operate on anger quite a lot. Its what gets me up in the morning to make art quite often. Well, irritation… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Comedy is great in that it's accessible to someone like me, from a low socioeconomic background, struggling in life. The gatekeepers are… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
I'm someone who is more artistic, who goes out there and gets stuck in and just plays golf. — Paul Casey Copy Share Image
I am not an insecure person. Thanks to my training in martial arts, I have it in me to appreciate good work,… — Ritika Singh Copy Share Image
“There really is power in numbers. In today’s society one has to understand the true power of word of mouth. It’s true… — Simon Zingerman Copy Share Image
If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for… — Matt Corby Copy Share Image
“I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.” — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case. — John Cage Copy Share Image
“A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to… — Ralph D. Sawyer Copy Share Image
When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text. — Blixa Bargeld Copy Share Image
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