The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first… — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment. — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
I am an artist. An actor performs, whether it's in front of the camera or a live audience. — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
Artists have kids, mortgages, or drug habits, and they got to do what they got to do. But reforming and the reunion… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
“The Weimar Republic gave nectar to the artists, social reformers and progressive people of all classes. They drank it, unaware that they… — Charlotte Wolff, M.D Copy Share Image
People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Part of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
“In the stillness I find my heart growing hot while I seek the person I have already found. God is so much… — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for… — William Booth Copy Share Image
It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
There's a lot of concern that London is changing and artists are being forced to move to new areas. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize… — Maurice Blondel Copy Share Image
“It’s not love. It’s an obsession. And it’s not art. It’s a way of seeing things. A way to see the things… — Kirsty Eagar Copy Share Image
Each drop of a tear is costly then anything in the world But , No one knows its value until they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when… — Kylie Bunbury Copy Share Image
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Certainly, in college, I had no idea what I wanted to do, I studied art history and had a great time, but… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
As an artist, you know as a person in the public eye, period, you kind of have a responsibility to the younger… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
“A pickup artist must be the exception to the rule. You must not do what everyone else does. Ever.” — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it… — Brian Stelfreeze Copy Share Image
There are a lot of country artists now that are heavily influenced by hip-hop. That's not me. I was very heavily influenced… — Frankie Ballard Copy Share Image
