Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and… — Will Cotton Copy Share Image
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was… — Randy Harrison Copy Share Image
There are many readers of the book, who don't know anything about the authors and the artists. There is more than one… — Gabriel Ba Copy Share Image
United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album.… — John Astin Copy Share Image
When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
It's not always a conscious thing - I've never been that artist to come to the recording session with a concept of… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
I really fell for Marilyn Manson. I thought how awful it was that an artist like him could be blamed for something… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
Good leaders, competent leaders must see it as primary task to create friendliness. This something within the scope of most people. Now… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If people want to watch music videos you can go to Youtube. But it would be great if there was still music… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the… — Dustin Yellin Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
I think that there should be this thing for cover-ups on tattoos. I want to develop it. It's like a skin-toned transfer,… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riatlo, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of… — Tintoretto Copy Share Image
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from… — Peter Wright Copy Share Image
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
“Leanoardo wrote that a painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my… — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
We tend to be talking to fabricators in the film and special effects or automotive customisation worlds. That having been said, I'm… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
“The toughest part has been getting used to being known. I've always been the guy in the background, being the actual artist… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
With regards to the paint, I'm normally quite introverted and shy. I keep myself to myself, and I find that when I… — Finn Balor Copy Share Image
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Imagine your life is a big canvas. Picture it in your mind and think about the beginnning of your painting of life.You're… — Stephen Biro Copy Share Image
Actually, I don't really draw that well. It's just that I don't stop trying as quickly. I keep at it. I happen… — Milt Kahl Copy Share Image
I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
