Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that… — Egon Friedell Copy Share Image
Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
“[f]or most people, construction is tight, concentrated, bunchy, whereas vandalism offers release; you have to be quite an artist to give positive… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Now "professional" seems to be whoever you went to school with. It constitutes your nuclear world. And that's the fault of the… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun - and thus can… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
If an artist is going through a lot of bad publicity, I don't want to ask them about that. If they want… — Elvis Duran Copy Share Image
I'm a SoundCloud, online kind of artist. It's not like back in the day when everyone was like linking up physically to… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
“Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists job to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed,… — Jonathan Culver Copy Share Image
“But above all things was it a return to Nature - that formula which seems to suit so many and such diverse… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“USURY: Everybody's looking for the job in which you never have to pay anyone their pound of flesh. Self-employed nirvana. A lot… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the… — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
I don't want to be just that transgender performer or that transgender musical artist. I want to create songs and art and… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
“He believes that a real work of art can be owned but should not be subject to capture; that it should radiate… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
“Art is not a metonym for truth telling. All art is a form of a falsifying; otherwise why would anyone need art… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The world isn't all happy, shiny people, and great art doesn't come from vanilla. Great art comes from people with a point… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
I feel like there is a different, new energy when I collaborate with a living artist, whether it be a composer, designer,… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Throughout his many years, he enriched the lives of countless others and served as a model of generosity and discipline to those… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
What I want to do right now is give hip hop back to the hood. Before it was a neighborhood thing where… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Things always change and evolve and now there are a lot of other ways for people to hear music that weren't as… — Maya Jane Coles Copy Share Image
I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works… — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I have a general feeling that writers and artists who are in this peculiar situation, of being a persecuted artist, all anyone… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Internet has considerably changed the rules. Some artists do not try to become celebrities: the internet does the job for them and… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned that caring for your mental and emotional health isn’t a distraction from your art; it’s what keeps the spark alive… — J. Edwards Holt Copy Share Image
So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
When you are making art with someone, you often combine. Creating something with someone is unmatched. There's so much ego that goes… — E. R. Fightmaster Copy Share Image
Incorporating an awareness of style in the paintings gives them a kind of electricity and holds them together. It can plug you… — Rob Pruitt Copy Share Image
I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this,… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
My parents were always doubtful about my making a living as an artist. Even when I was up for the Turner Prize,… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. I am… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I struggle again to draw this man's face in a crowd of faces: which dog-eared lines and frayed adjectives do I use?… — Dorit Rabinyan Copy Share Image
Being busy with daily work and chores, the canvas that we have within us gets filled up to the brim. We need… — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
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