I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider. — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
When your principal artists deliver convincing performances, the film's quality is elevated. — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
People think that the big companies make songs and their artists just release it. It's not like that. — Henry Lau Copy Share Image
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs. — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story -… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share Image
I don't know Prince's music like the back of my hand, but I was always a fan of him as an artist… — Amine Copy Share Image
The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he… — Gerard van der Leeuw Copy Share Image
“Rank asked why the artist so often avoids clinical neurosis when he is so much a candidate for it because of his… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Miles and I had been looking to do a martial arts show for some time. Our first two movies that we wrote… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
Without wishing to sound arrogant, when I was younger, I used to win every single martial arts tournament I ever entered. I… — Michael Bisping Copy Share Image
The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. — Henry Mille Copy Share Image
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make… — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules. — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how… — Larry Moss Copy Share Image
I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete. — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's… — Sela Ward Copy Share Image
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object. — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form. — Glenda Bailey Copy Share Image
“How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can't be done abruptly." [ Colm Tóibín, Novelist –… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. — George Mason Copy Share Image
“If the Peony flower is not number one in your heart…I’m sure it’s not too far down your list of favorite blooms!” — Chantal Larocque Copy Share Image
“An artist's role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
It's a constant quest to push the bar and work in films that allow me to prove what I can do as… — Tamannaah Copy Share Image
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art. — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
“You could say my book is the best book ever (or worst book ever), and it wouldn’t make it any better (or… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
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