A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me — Rosanna Arquette Copy Share Image
The underground always has the best ideas. Sometimes those underground artists transcend and make it to the mainstream, but most of the… — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I? — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
“If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower, which must be cautiously cared for and protected, from the harsh elements of "human weather.” — ELLE NICOLAI Copy Share Image
There's great cars, and then there's Aston Martins. Same thing for the 1959 Les Paul - it's an authentic piece of art… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
So, you're seeing the Rolls-Royces and the Bentley's still selling for big prices. You're seeing jewelry still selling, art works at auction.… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then,… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a… — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists that come and go very quickly, and I understand why just because someone has a No.… — Ricki-Lee Coulter Copy Share Image
Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that. — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process. — Renaldo Nehemiah Copy Share Image
I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all… — Steve Smith Copy Share Image
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves. — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
“Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a… — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The thing I hate about mixed martial arts is that it's no longer a sport. It's a big-money business, and it's an… — Tyron Woodley Copy Share Image
Our society and media have lost touch with the job of the artist. The job of the artist has been subordinated to… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out… — Tyler Farr Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
There are many tremendous artists that never make it. Talent is not enough if no one sees, hears and tastes your work. — apl.de.ap Copy Share Image
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and… — Ricki-Lee Coulter Copy Share Image
I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. — David Hockney Copy Share Image