Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when… — Wale Copy Share Image
When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the… — Ali Banisadr 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
Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“As a citizen, of course. As a parent, of course. But as an artist, that's where the paradox is - your responsibility… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
In 'Ratatouille,' there are two different themes that express the two sides of Remy's personality: the creative side: the chef, and the… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
It's a good feeling to be at a place where you know who you are as an artist. I didn't know back… — Tiffany Villarreal Copy Share Image
“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
"Black culture" is ready for whatever. I sense some momentum and excitement around black artists (especially in comedy, which is where most… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of… — William James Copy Share Image
I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
“No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell… — Michael Poeltl Copy Share Image
I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into… — Craig David Copy Share Image
Me and Skepta, we're kind of from the same world but have totally different-sounding albums. That's why I get funny sometimes when… — Kano 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
I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
My dream is to do exactly what I'm doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I listen to 'This American Life,' 'Serial,' 'S-Town,' 'Feast of Fun.' I listened to 'What's the Tee?' And that has really helped… — Bob the Drag Queen Copy Share Image
Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the… — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I'm never quite sure what I'm looking for in a comic book! It just jumps off the page somehow and hits you… — William Katt Copy Share Image
I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
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