I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The greatest thing in the world as an actor or an artist to connect. — Charlie Plummer Copy Share Image
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find… — Wayne McGregor Copy Share Image
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When I was younger and obsessed with becoming an artist, the hospital was my New York loft apartment. I would move the… — Claire Wineland Copy Share Image
...... an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts.....a camp for semi-demented adults.... Venice is like the… — Sara Davidson Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
I don't believe love is real love if it remains cloistered within the confines of an intimate relationship; it should transcend the… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available. — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
In Europe, radio stations are owned by a variety of different entities, so there is less uniformity on radio programming and more… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image