I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I think the audiences abroad are older and come from a more mature society. They have a different understanding of whats happening… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them. — Etta James Copy Share Image
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
My job as an artist is to take all my thoughts and feelings and put them on your iPod so that you… — Lalah Hathaway Copy Share Image
I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“[Editorial cartooning] is essentially a destructive art. We are not pontificators, or molders of thought—or at least we shouldn't try to be.… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
The greatest treasures are not gold nor jewels,nor work of art,They cannot be held with the hands They are held within the… — Sweetner Copy Share Image
“Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could - a look, a whisper, a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you… — iO Tillett Wright Copy Share Image
“...for, in [William] Morris's words, 'a work of utility might also be a work of art, if we cared to make it… — Ewan Clayton Copy Share Image
That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life - nothing more. And to give life means… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them. — Pink Copy Share Image
“As Henry Moore carved or modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello 4. and failed, but woke the next… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of… — Irshad Manji Copy Share Image
My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Most people that are making art are not famous! Most people that are making art do have day jobs. And it takes… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human… — Beatrice M. Hinkle Copy Share Image
That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
“The sweet traditional art of Seduction has been replaced with the current digital weird spirit of hit and run'.” — F Otieno Copy Share Image
A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceived who could see nothing more in a quotation than… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Instincts are a really important guide for any artist, but particularly filmmakers because it takes a lot to stay true to your… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
Me and DJ Mustard linked up, as we both respected each other's art and wanted to work together. — Ahmad Balshe Copy Share Image
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years… — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
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