“However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their… — Richard Williams Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to go to boarding school for my high school years, and I had all the resources that I… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as… — Georgiana Burne-Jones Copy Share Image
People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting… — David Sylvian Copy Share Image
If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
I secretly hate worship music, as it's it weak and predictable, with lyrics designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator -… — Reese Roper Copy Share Image
What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point,… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and… — John Marin Copy Share Image
When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
... dissatisfaction with one's self and dissatisfaction with the world - is necessary - it is one of the prime things that… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
I often wonder why we don't have an English word for 'genre.' People on arts programmes always have to use the word… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success.… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
“I suddenly knew that religion, God - something beyond everyday life - was there to be found, provided one is really willing.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Many artists would want a major label. But, if someone made you big, it doesn't mean they're no longer good enough when… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions…… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy,… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so… — Gia Coppola Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude.… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
But Stacie Orrico was my childhood hero. I was about 12 when I found her music. She is a contemporary Christian artist,… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since I started making art, I've always had some kind of project that was really about and for other people, because I… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
“It is a matter of artistic instinct. In his own thoughts and feelings and way of doing things an actor is worth… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
