That was always the top martial artist - the Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. Once I started beating them, I knew I… — Joseph Benavidez Copy Share Image
Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I always like to remain a fan, put it that way: and I like to hold the idealised version of what these… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The culture's changed massively. The kids are different, with the phones and stuff. Even if you like a song, you don't really… — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real. — Burton Raffel Copy Share Image
When we released 'Chaos A.D' it was really hard for a metal artist to survive. Everything was grunge. Everywhere you looked was… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get… — Antonin Kratochvil Copy Share Image
I have my struggles. But I'm doing whatever it takes to be an artist, to be the best technical jumper I can… — Max Aaron Copy Share Image
In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of… — Gavin Turk Copy Share Image
Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting… — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it weren't for Criminal Records, Wax-n-facts and other indie record stores I could have only sold my CD's at my shows… — Shawn Mullins Copy Share Image
“Every thought we think is like a brush stroke on the canvas of our lives. Let’s choose our thoughts, then, as a… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions. — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I know some people are like "I'm depressed and I'm a struggling artist" and that really works for some people, but that… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his… — Shanna Moakler Copy Share Image
I'm a fashion designer. What I do is artistic, but I'm not an artist because everything I do is destined to be… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro. — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
I know what kind of artist I want to be, what I'm capable of, what I'm not capable of. — Jeff Gutt Copy Share Image
I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art… — Afeni Shakur Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
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