Starting young has definitely helped my success. All the experience I gained by touring with other players as a backing artist helped… — Vonda Shepard Copy Share Image
I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Art is sacred. Punk rock is freedom. Expression and right to express is vital. Anyone can be artistic.” — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point,… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt. — Holly Near Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I hate to say Americans are ignorant and lazy, but a lot of them are ignorant and lazy. It's just like what… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat. Quite… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think when you're collecting, the best advice is just 'see see see see.' The more you get used to the nuances… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and… — Lilli Palmer Copy Share Image
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good. — William Lethaby Copy Share Image
The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I really admire the great Japanese artists who could change their name three times in a lifetime. You could get rid of… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously… — Dr. Dre Copy Share Image
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
I would say that all the singles that I have put out are collectively just a small piece of the artist that… — Thomas Rhett Copy Share Image
“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two. -… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I would like to think that an artist's mental health is taken into consideration more now. — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by… — John Green Copy Share Image
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I got involved with an organization called Artists for a New South Africa. One of its… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command… — Antoni Zygmund Copy Share Image
Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“The real reality is there, but everything you KNOW about “it” is in your mind and your to do with as you… — Malaclypse the Younger Copy Share Image
A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example. — Duane Ludwig Copy Share Image
