I love making music, but I also love making music that's on the radio. In some circles, that is considered less artistic.… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
My job will always be to make myself look bad because I don't think enough people make themselves look bad in art,… — CMAT Copy Share Image
It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
One thing that has happened is a revolution in digital consumer recording, and overall, that's a great thing for art, but parallel… — John Vanderslice Copy Share Image
Knowing that one dies... has brought with it a peace that before was elusive to say the least... it is useless, if… — Ruth Cracknell Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We need to think about what cooking is, what context it takes place in and what its relationship to the world of… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
It always seems to people that I'm avoiding saying, 'It's autobiographical,' but I really do believe that human beings make stories and… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
“We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and the other sanctums… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to… — Mary Lou Jepsen Copy Share Image
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
MTV has always given artists a platform to get their stories and music out to their fans and this series reveals the… — T.I Copy Share Image
I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a… — Teena Marie Copy Share Image
Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
I'm not so interested in this series of ruptures, where minimalism took over pop art, and then neo-expressionism was a triumph over… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
“And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look,… — Laura Pritchett Copy Share Image
The language of art is a 'parabolic' language, with a special openness to the universal: the 'Way of Beauty' is a way… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Edinburgh is a world city, visited throughout the year for its beauty and history, but in August, it is the City of… — Dominic Holland Copy Share Image
What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think we've got better talent than last year. There are two or three contestants, even without the competition, we would take… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
“real artists can survive the most hostile environments and yet find their true calling like homing pigeons. That’s hogwash. Many real artists… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“There is a line somewhere in Wozzeck that translates out to, roughly, 'The world is awful.' Yes, I said to myself as… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
My record, Evolution, is really about me evolving as an artist and trying a few new things. There's a song called, Road… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
As an artist, my wheelhouse is 19th-century literature. I want to write realist novels in a Victorian sense, and the writers I… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
“You and I are not getting out of this alive. An exception will not be made in our case so that we’ll… — Tom Roston Copy Share Image
It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
'Garage Magazine' has a strong track record of promoting diversity and racial and gender equality in the worlds of art and fashion… — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
“Religious structures represent just one facet of the precious art and architectural heritage of the Greek Isles, where splendid built sites vie… — Laura Brooks Copy Share Image
What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The way you survive in the performing arts is by having a sense of your audience, and doing things which entertain and… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
“It was a tribute to Raphael that lesser artists wanted to copy his work, but this… this was a travesty. The fresco… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to… — Blue Balliett Copy Share Image
“I can certainly throw out some observation about the process of creating which may be of use. Firstly, it's the best &… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
We have basic urges all the time. They just manifest themselves in different scenarios, and we have to turn those weaknesses into… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“It happens that in our phase of civility, the novel is the central form of literary art. It lends itself to explanations… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
