The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music… — Johnny Reid Copy Share Image
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
“I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree... Yet, O my palm-tree, be… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been… — Cory Arcangel Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've heard pop artists do some Christmas songs, and I haven't fully cared for them. They weren't the traditional… — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things.… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
It may be fine for an artist to be indifferent to the reaction of the viewer to a work of art. A… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
“Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Just give us 50 years where we're the only ones who are allowed to profit from art, and then you can do… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
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“All art is portraiture and all art is political: those are the things that you cannot avoid. When someone sees you in… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director,… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Quit your complaining. It’s not the world’s fault that you wanted to be an artist. It’s not the world’s job to enjoy… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself,… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly...… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art.… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I've never had a mentor personally of any kind. It feels like, generally, in the writing world or the art world, it's… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“Recommended Books Bruce Barnbaum: The Art of Photography, An Approach to Personal Expression Martin Evening: The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book Jeff… — Robert Rodriguez Jr Copy Share Image
Claude Cahun is a fascinating artist - one of the few women to be part of the surrealist movement, she and her… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
![“An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music and it [will] be a very personal experience. An entertainer was somebody that took their God-given talent and shared it with people. And I've always wanted to be an entertainer.” quote by Johnny Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ed/johnny-reid-50625_art_an-artist-is-somebody-that-puts-themselv_804546.jpg)
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