“What does it mean to be a "real artist"? It means you are spending your time doing the things that matter most… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
I've been a huge fan of Adele, Sam Smith, and Ed Sheeran, and those amazing artists draw inspiration from their present and… — Calum Scott Copy Share Image
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this… — Jet Li Copy Share Image
I won't forget those kind of things, but I just want to write them down and look at them. It's almost like… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“A statue of Arturo Prat, hero of the Chilean Navy, surveyed it all. From under his statue I look up onto those… — Brian Keenan Copy Share Image
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art.… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power,… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
“The Neo-Pagan Ten “Commandments” 1. Thou art God/dess. 2. As above, so below; as within so without. 3. Spirit abides in all… — Marian Singer Copy Share Image
What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called… — Brenton Thwaites Copy Share Image
I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's… — Reggie Watts 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
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
“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
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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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“...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
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
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
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