I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art. – Sigmar Polke
Fashion, for me, is anything that’s aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It’s something that I appreciate and really like. – St. Vincent
It’s the first time that I’ve ever had an art show based on a film, but it’s a photography collage. – Val Kilmer
I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well. – Tyler Perry
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have. – Sean O’Casey
It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It’s like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty. – Serge Haroche
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me. – Sean Scully
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. – Will Eisner
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! – Victor Hugo
I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills. – Sharon Creech
I’ve worked with more than 50 directors ,and I’ve paid attention since day one. That’s pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I’ve seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving. You just leave the bad part out. – Tommy Lee Jones
I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. – Yves Tanguy
Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars. – Tim Bray
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. – William Osler
I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world. – Walead Beshty
My career? I never think of it as a ‘career.’ Art and music and all those things that I’m creating are just part of me. – Yoko Ono
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake. – Walter Pater
Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross. – Stephen Stills
What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it’s important to reflect on what made jazz so special. – Stefon Harris
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. – William Cavendish
The art of entrepreneurship and the science of Customer Development is not just getting out of the building and listening to prospective customers. It’s understanding who to listen to and why. – Steve Blank
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. – Youssou N’Dour
I think it’s important for anyone who takes cinema seriously not to limit yourself to just optimistic or happy movies. I think that’s a problem. You’ve got to be willing to let the art of cinema take you into some darker places if you’re going to make full use of it. – Scott Derrickson
