Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my… — Ray Toro Copy Share Image
When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you… — Jaime King Copy Share Image
I think most artists start off playing in front of people and are used to doing it before they go out. I… — Lisa Marie Presley 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
Any really good scientist is as much an artist as a scientist. All the interesting stuff is found on the edge between… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his… — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
L.A. has a lot of tackiness to it, but at the same time, in that funny kind of fantasy pretentiousness, it's unpretentious… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
We have to remember examples of many artists of conscious rap who have been coopted by the Department of State of the… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The worst was I had little control in terms of smoothing out my questions and making myself look good the way I… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
My job as an artist is to take all my thoughts and feelings and put them on your iPod so that you… — Lalah Hathaway Copy Share Image
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I think that's what so exquisite and unique about New York, it's a city that allows you to hone your craft as… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
I think there's an interest right now in the performance aspect of artworks, instead of just hanging things on walls. We're in… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense.… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Taro came into the room, strands of hair flying free of the tie at the back of his skull, sweat plastering his… — Moira J. Moore Copy Share Image
It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The books I made, most of those books were made in the '80s or early '90s. I was reacting emotionally at that… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's hard to make a living in any of the arts. When most people think of artists, they think of the stars… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I have always been involved with radio, whether it was as an artist talking to radio about my own songs, or as… — MC Serch Copy Share Image
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
There's the instability of my attitude as an artist, the instability of our perception of the world, and the idea that with… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
I think a lot of directors nowadays come from the commercial world, which is about seduction, which has nothing to do with… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going,… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends… — Aaron Brookner Copy Share Image
I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“What makes an amazing artist? It's not his ability to impress but his skill in touching people's lives through his craft. When… — Elizabeth E. Castillo Copy Share Image
I might ask about the first time a person heard a song that they really responded to, like when I asked Mos… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
Bernard [Leach] knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think of a number of people that… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“The machinery of the sky that confounds us on earth with endless transformations of clouds in the light of dawn does not… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
![“I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's [Hospital] who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying…” quote by Aaron Brookner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/339/aaron-brookner-54373_aids_i-have-a-feeling-a-lot-of-artists-work-g_373194.jpg)
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