It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
The thing represented had to pass through two distorting lenses: the artist's mind, and his medium of expression, before it emerged as… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
In the beginning, the energy involved to create came from my reaction to the work of other artists. The force behind this… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand,… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it… — Dennis Nurkse Copy Share Image
Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
I have made a living for myself from my networking by endorsing restaurants, resorts, artists, films, assorted venture capital deals, because some… — Sonja Morgan Copy Share Image
You're always taught that the world is so competitive. You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful and… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
The human body is beauty, art, creativity, expression, a vessel for the soul, our temple and a magnificent machine. We have to… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
“All my life I have refused to be for or against parties, for or against nations, for or against people. I never… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of exec that's artist-friendly, because I give them the whole play. I let them be involved with their careers… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
Everything I record, I end up putting out. You hear about artists with hundreds of songs in their archive, and I have… — Laufey Copy Share Image
It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
“Writing is the art of remembering and forgetting. You must forget what you’ve already written, because if you’re dwelling on your old… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
There are artists in Belgium who try to imitate American artists. But it's like, if you're Belgian pretending to be American, you… — Stromae Copy Share Image
“After spending all that time in bed, I realized I was treating the act of eating as though it's the art of… — Kyung Ran Jo Copy Share Image
With acting, I'm taking somebody else's work and interpreting it. Whereas with music, it's organic. It's completely myself. Nobody else is really… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
What motivates me is the chance to improve the world in my own special way; to contribute to the fight that all… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
“I couldn't have written [What Good Are The Arts?] because I--and I'm not alone, by any means--do not have Carey's breadth of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“By art alone we can get out of ourselves, find out what another person sees of this universe which is not the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If you're serious about singing or acting, which are two art forms that get repetitive, the way to keep the music fresh… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
“In this world, this life, "flow" [the times when our work or play so absorbs and attunes our energies that we lose… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course,… — Karen Fukuhara Copy Share Image
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it… — Yagyu Munenori Copy Share Image
Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation… — Patrick Holford Copy Share Image
Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
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