Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
I believe passionately that games are an art form and that the power of our medium flows from our audience, who are… — Ray Muzyka Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had a… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
“As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Art school?” He gave me a pointed look. “Charlotte, getting a master’s degree in art is like telling the universe that you… — Whitney G Copy Share Image
I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort… — Barbara Rosenblat Copy Share Image
Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I never went out. I was not the guy at the club. I was almost scared of going to the club. All… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
We search out the most perfect pieces of rock. It's so amazing that these formations are so perfect for climbing on. It's… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
“What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from his work? What do they expect? What is there… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately life has a way of sidetracking one’s greatest ambitions. Painters, would-be artists, end up whitewashing walls. Sculptors are forced to design… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Simmer down, simmer down They say we're too young now to amount to anything else But look around We work too damn… — 5 Seconds Of Summer Copy Share Image
In the arts, in places where you're not going to save lives or save species, I think there's no reason to play… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
“I wish I could say we all lived happily ever after. I can't. But I can say we lived. Our love for… — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
The whole impetus behind going solo was an artistic inspiration in the sense that, obviously, success is fantastic. But as one becomes… — Jennifer Nettles Copy Share Image
Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and… — Eva Simons Copy Share Image
What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
“Young Bindo Altovini, looking out from time, made a perfect coalition with the mountains, the sky, and the tall redheaded woman who… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I need an artist to be a dog. You know what I'm saying? I need an artist to think for themselves. I… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
Latino patriots have served and fought in every war. They are artists, dancers, singers, poets and journalists, teachers and scientists. More and… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Museums are important. Design and art schools are important because they show how it should be done at the highest level of… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter.… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste,… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The French, whose fascination with 19th-century Japanese painting and decorative art led them to coin the term 'Japonisme,' have reciprocated the interest,… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
I thank God that you know the art of tearing yourself apart - I mean the way to humble yourself truly by… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let… — Jermaine Dupri Copy Share Image
“The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Art,' she said. 'My second favorite subject.' She gave him a shrewd look. 'You wish for me to ask you what your… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
