I ain't a new artist, I'm good in the studio, I don't need somebody to hold my hand in the studio. I… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
“The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him; on the one hand,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to think that that stereotype of American movies and Hollywood movies doesn't exist. Of course you have the… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who… — John Cena Copy Share Image
“The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline .… — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The vast majority of artists worldwide are unrepresented, disenfranchised or otherwise don't have an opportunity to sell or have their work shown.… — Bruce Livingstone Copy Share Image
An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making… — Mervyn Levy Copy Share Image
I value above all the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically, without answers. I make art that makes me… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
Even if you can't afford to buy a painting, you can experience it. You can go see the Mona Lisa and be… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there. You know it doesn't seem fair, that I'm living… — Ani Difranco Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before,… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was… — Cynthia Lennon Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting,… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using… — Galina Vishnevskaya Copy Share Image
Patronage is a very old phenomenon that's occurred in people and in society for thousands of years. It stems from an emotional… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world.… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
“The concern is that the images to be devised won't be sufficiently upsetting: not concrete, not detailed enough. Pity can entail a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you -… — Rilke Letters to a Young Poet Copy Share Image
And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
“Everything in the universe is a work of art. Every living creature a story. You should hang out in a museum or… — C. L. Currie Copy Share Image
I also got encouragement from my teachers at primary school but one person in particular who had a significant impact on my… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't like being under someone elses thumb. I'm very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the… — Bruce Hutchison Copy Share Image
“James believed in the power of art, not because he thought it would change the world or because he imagined it could… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anything that… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was… — Al Pacino 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
As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised,… — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
