I don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out, 'Gosh, I wonder how guys feel,' because most every piece of… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
I know a lot of artists say, 'If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay. — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime… — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There's a lot of one-hit wonders and a lot of come-and-go artists and even the labels give up on you after a… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
“Art books are filled with interesting images. And that’s cool and all, but I look more for the nudes.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“We can learn to protect ourselves against malicious hackers and scam artists, allowing ourselves to feel calmer and more confident in any… — Christopher Hadnagy Copy Share Image
Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
“Whether it means producing a piece of art, writing a short story, or simply bringing beauty into our home or into the… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
I don't wait on the music industry to qualify me or give me my paycheck. I go about my business as an… — Perry Farrell Copy Share Image
That's all I ever wanted to do in my life was music. And because I was a failed artist, I was actually… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists. — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Birth is the start of life, Beauty is the art of life, Love is part of life, Death is the last of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think - a lot of times in hip-hop, especially - artists get kind of pigeonholed into being 'the guy,' and it's… — MF Doom Copy Share Image
For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity… — Elizabeth Price Copy Share Image
I stumbled into acting. My dad, James, was a barrister but he was always very creative and he loved theatre and the… — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
“O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change, the courage to change that which should be… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an… — Seth Copy Share Image
“Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist. — H. R. Giger Copy Share Image
For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they… — Craig McCracken Copy Share Image
I think reading and travelling not only make us good artistes but also broaden our horizons and open our mind. It really… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction. — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they… — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
