The funny thing is that the process of coming up with an idea for a column or a 'Candid Camera' sequence is… — Peter Funt Copy Share Image
I was a high school student like Picasso. I was a little eccentric, but I had high ideals. I wanted to get… — Usamaru Furuya Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be able to sing well, but another to be an artist and find your own voice within music.… — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
For sheer creativity and totality of involvement, 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' with HTV in Bristol was an amazing show to work on, but… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible… — One9 Copy Share Image
There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art claims to be the largest in the western hemisphere. It's right, but I'm not too sure about… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share Image
“Can it be that the ultimate chapter of this new era of democratic freedom is going to be deformed by this growing… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
You must not get too possessive, especially in our profession, where you know things aren't going to be easy. You can either… — Jaya Bachchan Copy Share Image
I listen to music very intensely as well: When I listen to an artist I really love, I feel like I know… — Robyn Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
You look at like the '70s, the messianic presence of the artist - it was very much about an audience gathering to… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
I am bowled over by the massive number of remarkable people who face down the fact that no, they are not going… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
“Oh, God, thou art the stagnant environment." All is quackery: these religions whose very existence depend on their failure, are so full… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
My game was completely ground based and I didn't really use my hands, and now I feel my game has improved a… — Brandon Moreno Copy Share Image
My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of… — Bob Beamon Copy Share Image
It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first,… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss… — Yukiru Sugisaki Copy Share Image
Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Bond is actually my dream role. Only because it was the film I watched with my grandfathers and father from a very… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
“Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Heartbreak allows us to also experience joy and love but you have to walk through heartbreak to even know what joy is.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Surfing is very special and unique. It's really hard to explain unless you've tried it. It's being out in the ocean in… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image