Once we realized what happened to Boney M., we wanted to come to the States. In Europe, artists just don't have the… — Rob Pilatus Copy Share Image
My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
“A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a… — Tomie dePaola Copy Share Image
Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness. — Sandra Bowden Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to any artist is surrounding themselves with people who love everything they do. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio.… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
“The point is that you have here a direct, unmistakable assault on sanity and decency; and even - since some of Dali’s… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
As a young artist in New York, I thought about postwar Japan - the consumer culture and the loose, deboned feeling prevalent… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
I stick to my guns - that's what keeps me going as an artist. Stevie Wonder never changed from what he wanted… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with… — Anne Dudley Copy Share Image
I have a lot of guy friends, from martial arts and film, and soccer. I actually barely know women. — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart. — John Banville Copy Share Image
True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world. — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Friendship is needless, like philosophy, like art¦.It has no survival value, rather it is one of those things that give value to… — Babloo Copy Share Image
I know what martial arts have done for me. They've taught me integrity, self-control, perseverance and an indomitable spirit. — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
I think with artists and celebrities, you want to be simultaneously supportive of their conversions without putting too much hope and weight… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I think that's the role of an artist, right? To touch someone and make us stretch out just a little bit more. — Rene Marie Copy Share Image
My whole life, I've been training for something, whether it be baseball or football or wrestling or martial arts. — Chuck Liddell Copy Share Image
Getting to do what I have been seeing in all of my favorite artists, and what my peers get to do all… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas. — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at… — Ron Sexsmith Copy Share Image
My parents were artists, so my salvation was to make pretty things - and ultimately delicious things at the same time. — Ron Ben-Israel Copy Share Image
Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
John Cage is someone I got into as a visual artist, before I even knew his music. I don't think a lot… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with. — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“It was the artist’s duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience’s job to decipher meaning. If the piece failed to… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
“My child has to be an artist, because conceiving her will be the best art my body has ever accommodated.” — Nomthandazo Tsembeni Copy Share Image
Oh, hey, White. I didn't think Nazi camp got out until eight. Did you decide to skip arts and crafts? -Peter LaFleur — Dodgeball Copy Share Image
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
