Honestly, I find so many fields - fashion, art, music - totally boring and restricting if you just stick to one of… — Hunx Copy Share Image
And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality . — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective. — Shannon Lucid Copy Share Image
Seriously, I lived in America for a while, I've been in lots of different bands, I write songs for all sorts of… — Chesney Hawkes Copy Share Image
You know, criticism began as the province of amateurs, of wealthy men who liked the arts. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“So there were two worlds: the perceived world, a dimension of adjectives, equations and brush strokes, a surface dazzling with our efforts… — Bia Lowe Copy Share Image
In this film [The Last King of Scotland] I am the rooky in the cast. Everyone has miles of experience than me… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
“And again and again I have to remind myself the whole art of life is to lean on people, to involve oneself… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students.… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
“Unlike when people lived in small communities and could not escape their past behavior, we live in an age of anonymous one-time… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
O Mary! teach us the life of adoration! Teach us to see, as thou didst, all the mysteries and all the graces… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Much of my inspiration definitely comes from the human experience. I'm really inspired by love like a lot of people are. My… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned… — Nas Copy Share Image
Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in,… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds. — Mary Hatwood Futrell Copy Share Image
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter. — John Waite Copy Share Image
I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel… — Frank Frazetta Copy Share Image
Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force. — Helio Gracie Copy Share Image
When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform? — Sholom Aleichem Copy Share Image
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the… — Omar Epps Copy Share Image
Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're… — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
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