I've written plenty of songs that are not tailored for me, writing six different songs to fit six different artists' visions. — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no… — Jim James Copy Share Image
When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet Mondrian The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions. — Rachel Roy Copy Share Image
Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“And art has come to be a spectator of itself, the way it reacts, what newspapers write about it; the artist is… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour.… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
“In its confounding of the logic that maintains terms like high and low, or base and sacred as polar opposites, it is… — Rosalind Krauss Copy Share Image
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I would passionately make the case that the harder the times, the more we need things that aren't just about keeping our… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes… We’re all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Most of my good friends have fights with me. Those guys know that I was in martial arts for 12 years fighting… — Charlie Murphy Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to be healthy because I want to survive longer as an artist. I want to go longer, and in… — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from… — John Hirsch Copy Share Image
Some people think the art and music I reference are too dark, but I'm trying not to worry about how others perceive… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Even if I am broken into many pieces, I know you can still make me a piece of art in another form;… — Shahid Hussain Raja Copy Share Image
I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music… — Andre Rieu Copy Share Image
There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change… — The Prolific Penman Copy Share Image
... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist. — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
“One must possess many gifts … which have not been acquired by one’s own effort. And, moreover … the artist must possess… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
“I don't suppose there has been a moment in the world's history where more people felt themselves to be artists, of when… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want… — Hal Boyle Copy Share Image
I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College. — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that creation, the making of 'art' in any medium or combination of mediums, is a holy… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
