Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality… — Joseph Alsop Copy Share Image
I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create,… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is,… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
I think I'm enjoying writing for me.I know what's in my head, so there's a little less margin for error, but I… — David Finch Copy Share Image
I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have… — Kate Greenaway Copy Share Image
If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio… — Clint Black Copy Share Image
It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
Artists are often having very similar conversations across the various disciplines through which they choose to excel, but you rarely see them… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different… — Troy Andrews Copy Share Image
My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
I'm a Banksy fan. I'm also a fan of Chris Hobe, Mister Totem, Drew Wootten, Mad Clout, Hense and Sever, in visual… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done,… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
I think that the most effective social protest that any artist can do would be things that come naturally and feel obvious.… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
I do all of marketing and promotion - it's the most exhaustive and rewarding part of the process and I wouldn't trade… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
One of my great frustrations for 35 years at the paper was the fact I couldn't play a record for the reader… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I want to reach out and entertain people. I want people to come to a museum that have never been in a… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
Imagine this : You just painted the most beautiful picture you have ever painted. it is exactly what you wanted. you absolutely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could… — Lorenz Hart Copy Share Image
These things - the degree of vulnerability, the degree of skill, the degree of the longing to give - are influx all… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I… — Will Cotton Copy Share Image
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
It's only when it's smoothed out by history and we try to make sense of it - this incredibly complicated period when… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to… — Rosanna Arquette Copy Share Image
No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
“Once an artist painted on a huge canvas - the skies; The sun, the landscapes and everything that was nice. To complete… — Sushrut A. Badhe Copy Share Image
I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
The thing I wondered about so much as a young artist, particularly when things weren't going well and I was really struggling,… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want… — Richard Fleeshman Copy Share Image
