I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Having people around you that are honest with you, and having a team around you that can actually track and communicate where… — Muneshine Copy Share Image
Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein… — John Yau Copy Share Image
You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that… — Henry James Copy Share Image
As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'm going to be that type of artist but I do love cultural icons. Like Solange has been really… — NAO Copy Share Image
I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that I'm a consummate live artist. Album work is kind of just like quilt weaving or something. But live… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
Most people assume that folks with amazing mental abilities were born this way and that they operate on a plane that's inaccessible… — Berit Brogaard Copy Share Image
Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to… — Leo Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in… — Nikka Costa Copy Share Image
Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
I think the entrepreneurial activities that make art visible and attractive are what lure people into the amusement park that SoHo has… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
It's not always a conscious thing - I've never been that artist to come to the recording session with a concept of… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
To get out of desperate situation can only be done by education and by openness for Indonesians. Everybody who can, should be… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
[Charlie Parker] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too.… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
“As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become… — Andrew Loomis Copy Share Image
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists… — John Walford Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life,… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
The difference between EAZY E the artist and Eric Wright the human being, was two separate worlds apart. Behind closed doors, Eazy-E… — Kokane Copy Share Image
Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it's nice to not have to dread introductions. "What… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge… — Bruce Pavitt Copy Share Image
A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
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