There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“To her credit, though, Trace didn't lose her famous temper, not at that moment. At eighteen she was already expert at the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
“What a lot of failed and mediocre actors do not realize, probably because it is ironic, is that the key to being… — Jack Freestone Copy Share Image
I enjoy martial arts. I love to compete, I love to be at the top. I mean that's why I started in… — Rory MacDonald Copy Share Image
Sure they say we (women) are life givers not takers, but guess what, most women can multi-task and be life givers and… — Sonya Lamonakis Copy Share Image
“All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
. . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I'd been so heavily influenced by Em, but artists that don't grow out of that don't go anywhere. Ultimately, I came to… — NF Copy Share Image
Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I am myself a professional creator of images, a film-maker. And then there are the images made by the artists I collect,… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
“I know what science this has come to be. All rights and laws are still transmitted Like an eternal sickness of the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs… — Elton John Copy Share Image
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment… — Hedda Sterne Copy Share Image
“Some people use bullfights, some the Mass, some art in order to ritualize or transform death into life or at least meaning.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold… — Tony Tasset Copy Share Image
When we did Diplomats music, it was all genuine, and I think that's why people love it so much, because they seen… — Cam'ron Copy Share Image
I think casting is really important. Finding the right sensibility for the right part is an art in itself. If you're off… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It used to take me a really long time, and I used to not be able to write in the studio because… — Saweetie Copy Share Image
The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I cared nothing; my point of view in that instance, as in all others like it, was, that if the paper chose… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced… — Banksy Copy Share Image
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades -… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“The real reason that students and increasingly teachers of art history are ready to jettison the past, however, is that the refusal… — Christopher S. Wood Copy Share Image
“What was remarkable was that associating with a computer and electronics company was the best way for a rock band to seem… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“The difference between sex with David and sex with Stephen is like the difference between science and art. With Stephen it's all… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
