The biggest enemy of an artist is apathy... A kid gets killed by the police and I buy a T-shirt and before… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It's cool to see a bunch of brown kids in the crowd. I wanna be a brown artist that they look up… — Cuco Copy Share Image
I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a… — Jocko Henderson Copy Share Image
Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair? — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead. — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that… — Miyavi Copy Share Image
An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He’s not making any decisions, he’s not weighing one idea against another. He’s accepting… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply,… — Winsor McCay Copy Share Image
What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by — Blaine Hogan Copy Share Image
I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less. — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Copy Share Image
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is the music of the youth. It sort of has the same purpose as what we do, at least lyrically, because… — Amadou Bagayoko Copy Share Image
Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
