The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles.… — Billy Preston Copy Share Image
We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hopefully this is going to be a trend, the beginning of a movement to reclaim theater for the artist and not commerce.… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates… — David Walker Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait,… — Jake Owen Copy Share Image
It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for… — John Currin Copy Share Image
“The reason for which Picasso was compelled to resort to signs and allegories should now be clear enough: his utter political helplessness… — Max Raphael Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.… — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
“It was said that [Vetinari] would tolerate absolutely anything apart from anything that threatened the city*... [Footnote] And mime artists. It was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The struggle of the artist against the art-ideology, against the creative impulse and even against his own work also shows itself in… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
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It wasn't just like, "I want to make a record that sounds like classic rock" at all. It was more like, "I… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
As a solo artist, it's so easy to be lumped into a singer / songwriter genre and writing sleepy, sad songs that… — Anderson East Copy Share Image
There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question… — Maxfield Parrish Copy Share Image
This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Keep being you, be obnoxiously yourself, because I feel like that's what makes you special. There's only one of every artist we… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like getting my own thoughts out right now, I have fans to solidify, so that's why I don't do tracks with… — Drake Copy Share Image
Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
All the collaborations that I've done that I'm really proud of with a lot of incredible Canadian artists and beyond, that's when… — Lights Copy Share Image
I want to use every second of my life, every time that I have in my life, to make me a better… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
“All things considered, I’ve learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
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