When I met Johnny Cash, I didn't know what to ask: where were you born, who was your favorite recording artist, what's… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I've been doing martial arts since I was five, so for me competition is something that's very common. — Yair Rodriguez Copy Share Image
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to… — James Franco Copy Share Image
All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity. — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way,… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
“The human erotic imagination is a vast wilderness of sexual possibilities. We are each capable of enjoying a pleasurable, satisfying and potentially… — Chris Maxwell Rose Copy Share Image
“A face like yours makes men stumble over themselves.” He tilted his head to look at me through a new angle. “Faces… — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end.… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters. — Dhanush Copy Share Image
Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get… — James Van Der Zee Copy Share Image
It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting. — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are 100,000 artists on Pandora & 70% are indies; artists making $100K - $2 million. — Tim Westergren Copy Share Image
To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through. — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing… — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises… — Moby Copy Share Image
I want the biggest artist of 2030, 2027 or even 2025 to say, 'I was inspired by Cordae. Cordae is the reason… — Cordae Copy Share Image
Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Talent never guarantees the success, its the art of success which can leads you to the sky” — Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed Copy Share Image
Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art. — James Mangold Copy Share Image
Very wealthy people often want to talk to broke artists about what it's like to try to follow your passion. — Celine Song Copy Share Image
“...art is made by the alone for the alone… The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication...” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial. — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Now I have a business, artists to take care of. I want to make sure everything's going right, because at the end… — Mustard Copy Share Image
There is such opacity within the art market. There's also an abundance of fraud and misrepresented goods, which leads to mistrust between… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have. — Agnes Gund Copy Share Image
