It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
“The toughest part has been getting used to being known. I've always been the guy in the background, being the actual artist… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless. — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Chetta believed that most people who worked in the arts were high-functioning schizophrenics, and she was no different.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be where I am without people giving me an opportunity and a platform. I feel like that's what I should… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the… — Piet Hein Copy Share Image
I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm a trained engineer, so I'm conditioned to come up with a right answer to a difficult question, but when it comes… — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The human face is the most deeply ingrained image in our brains. It is the two dots and a dash we connect… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum.… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
From Uber and Lyft drivers to financial advisors to local artists, we should support workers' freedom and our gig economy. — Young Kim Copy Share Image
I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard,… — Liz Prince Copy Share Image
I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred… — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist! — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age… sympathy as a fine… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
I've benefited enormously from an arts education and a music education in New York. When they cut the programs for funding, I… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
It's global. It's the world telling some artists they're doing a good job, because you get an award if you sell, so… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do. — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be… — Alfredo Kraus Copy Share Image
New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the… — Dustin Yellin Copy Share Image
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being” — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to… — Starsmith Copy Share Image
Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing. — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
