You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Character artist, villain, comedian, comedy villain, hero - he has been perfect in them all. That's Mohan Babu. His dialogue delivery is… — Brahmanandam Copy Share Image
I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there.… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I… — Tahj Mowry Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time, a lot of energy trying to be a better artist and I still [do]. I spend… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think I'm really drawn to filmmakers and artists who are kind of pathologically incapable of thinking straightforward about film, and about… — Jeremy Davies Copy Share Image
How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to… — John Marin Copy Share Image
Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
In this kind of super-capitalistic society, everything is turned into money. And one of the great things about art is it isn't… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
I constantly modify myself. There are downfalls to that because you are constantly trying to figure out who you are, but at… — Chloe Zhao Copy Share Image
The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail...Say what you… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I care deeply about anyone who listens to my music. That's a sacred connection between the artist and the person who appreciates… — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall… — El-P Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite.… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My entire childhood was a sacrifice: I was in and out of institutes until I was 17. Art has given me a… — Goldie Copy Share Image
In general when you fall in love with an artist and their music, the plan is a fairly simple one. .. get… — Peter Asher Copy Share Image
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