Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real… — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative…the real secret of… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
You can feel greatness in the ring. You can get two guys that gel together and it's just like poetry or a… — Ricky Steamboat Copy Share Image
If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
I don't sell anything. So, I have a personal image, but I think that's because I'm from an art background, and I'm… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
In some ways, writing music is an art because so much of it is instinctive and sort of below consciousness, and lyric… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
It's really painful when four singers are asked to sing one track, and in the end, only one of them is kept.… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I am first and foremost a musician, although those of us who live elsewhere still dream about the inspirational qualities of Australia… — Roger Woodward Copy Share Image
If people like you, they will like your magic. If you are an artist at what you do, they will sing your… — Paul LePaul Copy Share Image
If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking. — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could,… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I got a lot of experience for my age. Some artists might take a line or two from a bunch of songs… — Lil Tjay Copy Share Image
We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows. — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The animators working with these 3D models, they're artists, right? They're great at what they do. They're artful in how they move… — Aaron Ehasz Copy Share Image
I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself. — Frank Tyger Copy Share Image
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art,… — Efraim Zuroff Copy Share Image
The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and… — George Bellows Copy Share Image
