It is true that independent music is risky, but the amount of freedom of expression it provides an artist overpowers this risk. — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be.… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art. — Kafu Nagai Copy Share Image
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
I feel like it's not about the music anymore-it's about how many friends you have on Facebook and your Instagram pictures. I… — Anthony Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I was born in the Golden West, reared in the arms of the Church, deluged with saints to draw from, and suckled… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future. — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst,… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities. — Holland Cotter Copy Share Image
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the… — Ron Silliman Copy Share Image
The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“only my art held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt… — Russell Martin Copy Share Image
I'm happy and feel myself to be fortunate that I've been gifted with this art of comedy, where I can make people… — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
The mixed martial arts industry is valued at $2 billion in America alone. It is the fastest growing sport. The unpredictability of… — Raj Kundra Copy Share Image
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
YouTube is a platform where people can be extremely, and sometimes brutally honest about how they feel about a certain artist or… — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters? — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
