Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
I like a lot of the new artists, but there's only one I can name that stands out to me the most:… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's… — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
Conversing with children is a fine art… An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I am a terrible chef; I'm not a good cook. I don't have the talent, the patience, the desire even to cook… — Philip Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they’ve gotten good at it, and they’re… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages,… — Susanna Phillips Copy Share Image
“Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
I do think that as an artist, I crave privacy because that is when you get to really check in with yourself.… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
I graduated from Wesleyan University with a b.a. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Comedy is a man's art form. It pretty much came from a time, post-World War II really - the 1950s are not… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“They were sitting on the ground with baskets of the red berries before them, and in their embroidered dresses, with streaming black… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me. — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
There are people that like contemporary art and people that like old art, and I like old art. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
I'm really excited to get into some comedy music and do it no holds barred and work with my favorite artists, people… — Chris Redd Copy Share Image
Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized,… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist. — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
“Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function. — Dave Holland Copy Share Image
Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act -… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood,… — Craig McCracken Copy Share Image
“The “Art of Possible” can only be achieved through visionary IT leadership, as well as the art and science of modern IT… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
“Edith would always believe art was for everyone, whether rich or poor, educated or not.” — Lindsay Pollock Copy Share Image
Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Without a doubt, I must read, all the books I've read about. See the artworks hung on hooks, that I have only,… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
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