When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed. — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I… — Kristen Wiig Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look. — Amy Neftzger Copy Share Image
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher,… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
The way I look at it, competing at a high level, whether that's business, art or film, athletics, anything you do, there's… — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
“What's that?' Thaniel said, curious. The postmarks and stamps weren't English or Japanese. 'A painting. There's a depressed Dutchman who does countryside… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“Art then becomes a safety valve for the expression of individual and collective neuroses originating in the inability of coping with the… — Luis Camnitzer Copy Share Image
If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The things I'm grateful for are: I had the one thing that I feel really lucky about, which is that I made… — David Rees Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and… — Stephen Sprouse Copy Share Image
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to have schools for painting; there are only painters. Schools have no use except for discerning the analytic… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
“poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
As we get further into our career we're figuring out how to become more efficient as artists, and doing so many different… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“All we can do is put our heart and work into the world. It’s our art. It’s our purpose.” — Dave Crumby Copy Share Image
What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs. — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and… — James Jordan Copy Share Image
I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that. — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
When we watch dance, the artists and the audience are part of a momentary collective experience that will never happen again. — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
“I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a… — Anna Carey Copy Share Image
Believe me, I love Apple...but iTunes shouldn't be the answer. For artists, it should be the scariest thing in the world. — Will I Am Copy Share Image
I think it's so fun that my art isn't centered in one sound or rooted in one lane or whatever. It's just… — Bree Runway Copy Share Image
Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
