Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social,… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that. — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
It's tough as an artist to have such a specific vision for your video in mind when you write a song. Reaching… — Hayley Kiyoko Copy Share Image
Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Nude paintings and sculptures are called "art" only in the museums.. Outside of the museums, It is "Absurdity" and "Vulgarity". To respect… — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist… — Josh Smith Copy Share Image
The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no… — Simon Kapwepwe Copy Share Image
Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further,… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make… — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist. — Thia Megia Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking. — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural comedian, as an artist. I studied comedy growing up. I would watch Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Martin… — Brandon T. Jackson Copy Share Image
Sleepless nights in the studio. Work hard to make art that has a purpose. My voice will be heard. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalise… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that… — Marian Anderson Copy Share Image
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I come from a school of artists, the Mission School in San Francisco, and there are a lot of artists I look… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
