Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician? — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams. — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive. — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice. — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She… — Francis Meadow Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
My family was artistic and encouraged me to express myself. I was a show-off, so they took me to ballet class. — Sofia Boutella Copy Share Image
Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion. — Miguel Copy Share Image
Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
At its core, kitsch feels like something less than art; it panders to the middle and is flagrantly anti-art, though it often… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Every makeup artist has a straw somewhere on them, pretty much at all times. They're pros, and it's a lot easier to… — Kendall Jenner Copy Share Image
We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist.… — Christo Copy Share Image
'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
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