The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
My priority in life is my whanau, followed by my work as an artist, which has blessed me with the ability to… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
Dad and Mom were frustrated artists - Dad wanted to study engineering or architecture and Mom wanted to be an actress -… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art:… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The thing about being an artist is that you evolve so quickly, you grow, you learn, you change, you find yourself hating… — Halsey Copy Share Image
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of… — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist... Anyone who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
I think it's important for artists to work together. It's great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering -… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
