All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That's a very convenient way to get very… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in everything. If I had enough time on this earth, I'd like to learn every art practice. — Hunter Schafer Copy Share Image
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
My art is representational by choice…if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Discipleship is the art and science of helping people find, follow and fully become like Jesus. Discipleship happens as God's people show… — Brandon Cox Copy Share Image
The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He considered the medium to be secondary: first and foremost was the idea. Only after an artist had settled on and developed… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the… — Piper Payne Copy Share Image
Colombians, when they love an artist, they love him whether you're up or down. So why wouldn't I stay in a place… — Nicky Jam Copy Share Image
To be honest, Nas was my favorite artist growing up. The way he told stories, I could close my eyes and imagine… — Nav Copy Share Image
It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
“The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work… — Carlo Ponti Copy Share Image
Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection. — Anderson Silva Copy Share Image
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances when you're not safe… — Danny De Vito Copy Share Image
It is vital for artists to nurture and protect that which will make their vision unique. — Jane Fulton Alt Copy Share Image
I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow. — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs -… — Marion Raven Copy Share Image
All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Art is not an assembly of accidents. You have to master the rules before you break them.” — M. Pierce Copy Share Image
I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
The first tour an artist does is a strange one... because you can never tell how the audience is going to react. — Labrinth Copy Share Image
A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food. — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Copy Share Image
Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
I thought, 'If I can create a business to promote martial arts, that'd sure be a lot of fun.' — Scott Coker Copy Share Image
I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which… — Giorgio Morandi Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
It's really rare that an entire genre of music allows an artist from a different genre to come and live there. — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
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