I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance,… — John Cena Copy Share Image
Without intermediate artists, music is what "American Idol" decides is great or made by the very poor, because Sharon Osbourne's made everything… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
“In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I can't say if I have influenced anything really, maybe a few artists but at the end of the day we are… — Mick Harris Copy Share Image
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles...… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“Art is a social object, books and films and records and television shows, they’re social objects that bring people together in conversation.… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
I feel like every artist has a place in their mind, this place where they exist artistically. And I just want to… — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I believe that even an airport can be an inspiring place for an artist. A Nobel Prize laureate once said something along… — Isa Genzken Copy Share Image
I think traditional media is vitally important, I think there are a lot of benefits to working in traditional media, and I… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We have to remember examples of many artists of conscious rap who have been coopted by the Department of State of the… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
You no longer have to have a big record label behind you and have to kowtow to the politics that enabled you… — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my… — David Foster Copy Share Image
You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Even though I'm out there as an artist, I continue droppin' mixtapes, I continue doin' this and continue showin' DJs love personally.… — Ace Hood Copy Share Image
I love to paint and beautify the most unexpected of places - I've painted everything from doorways to trains but have always… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
Art suggests stuff that is traded like money, that is kept in galleries and that belongs to the elite, whereas experience is… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
“An artist’s job was not to give aesthetic pleasure—designers could do that; it was to step back from the world and attempt… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
People don't really want to hear me say this, but a black person who will give a million dollars to the Museum… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go for those with… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different… — Alex Scally Copy Share Image
For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me,… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see. Get so you can draw anything… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
To have my name said like, "Common and John Legend, Golden Globe nominees," is one of the greatest achievements I've ever had… — Common Copy Share Image
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
