The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

But if a role model in her seventies isn’t layered with contradictions – as we all come to be – then what good is she? Why bother to cut the silhouette of another’s existence and...

From their ’61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It’s the musical trough from...

The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to...

Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There’s something magical about that place. There are a lot of people innovating, and that’s not the main...

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a...

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

Growing up, I’d already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I’d dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I’d listen to cool jazz...

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

People aren’t going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

To give a body and a perfect form to one’s thought, this – and only this – is to be an artist.

I am living breathing freedom

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

If you had to sacrifice three people to save six people, would you do it? I would—if the three were politicians and the six were teachers, inventors, artists, or anybody but lawyers, lobbyists, or central...

He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow...

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.

My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant.

It is a matter of artistic instinct. In his own thoughts and feelings and way of doing things an actor is worth nothing or he is worth something. If he is worth something then he...

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they’re musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it’s in their blood.

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

I’m a martial artist. I’ve boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

Telle une pierre philosophale, l’authenticité semble ainsi avoir le pouvoir de transformer en or l’assemblage de toile et de pigments que constitue un tableau.

This was not the perfect work that had existed in her mind. It was only the imperfect rendering that was the best her skill could manage. Yet Giulia was not dismayed. For she knew that...

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely – in conjunction, of course, with...

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens...

Creatively, I’d like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home.

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself.

Dawn and sunset are the times when Nature herself is unstable and in flux. The nocturnal world and the daytime world are meeting, and for a brief time coexisting. It’s not a neat hard cut,...

I have a master plan as an artist. I’ve always said I’m not going to be punching nobody’s clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say “watch me”.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know – for comedians are the caricatures among us.

I’m an artist; I do not destroy, but create scars. And above that, I am an inventor of new ways to create them.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though–and what an odd way to achieve success. I’m an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are not facts, they do not improve our business skills, our techniques...

It’s very hard to whisper in your own ear. Love is an art, but as an artist, I guess I’m no Van Gogh.

I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go...

On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, ’cause I’m known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing.

Art is unpredictable.

But you’re an artist. you should know there’s more to a story than the part happening right now.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I’m a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories.

There’s something beautiful about facing tragedy, you crack open a new, you find yourself in the parts of you; that can finally be explored freely with out judgement or guilt. Where to from here doesn’t...