“The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.” WayMindArtSelfBodyArtistFightingWinningEmotionSituationHealthBuddhismArt IsMartial ArtsCombatMasterySelf MasteryAthleticsMind BodyMartial Artist Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.” DoeHandsArtistBitsSituationEvery Second Author:Keith Urban
“I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.” ThinkingMenWantSeemsTogetherArtistSituationShareMetsIdealsWorking TogetherPartnershipWoman Artist Author:Tom Verlaine
“I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.” WorldArtIdeasArtistSituationStudyStudentsUniversityMuseumsAcademicArt Students Author:Ad Reinhardt
“I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.” HumansArtBodyArtistFallWishSituationTeachingHighestNobleRuinsHuman BodyElevationSmall Beginnings Author:Giorgio Vasari
“Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.” ArtArtistDifficultSituationSadnessUnhappyAweWorks Of ArtDifficult SituationsAwe Inspiring Author:Eric Gibbons
“I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.” ArtistDarkSituationVisionImpossibleTradeUncertaintySuperstitionsCantImpossible Situations Author:Ralph Steadman
“I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenI CanTwoHappensLawArtistSufferingSituationHe ManGayMen And WomenLeavingRussiaIsolatedAvenuesBansGay Men Author:Elton John
“I spent a lot of time, a lot of energy trying to be a better artist and I still [do]. I spend a lot of time focusing on my craft. If you're going to take your passion into something beyond just something for fun on the side, you got to spend a lot of time on it to be great, and then you've got to make smart decisions about who you collaborate with [and] where you live [to] put yourself in the right situations to meet the right people to catch those breaks.” PeopleIfsTryingStillsArtistPassionEnergyFunSidesDecisionSituationBreakSmartCraftsWhere You LiveSmart Decisions Author:John Legend
“When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.” WholeArtistSituationStreetsNegativeHip HopHipsHopsIncidentsBeefTerminology Author:Curtis Jackson
“Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me. In the music industry, any other artist would have looked at the situation I was in and thought, "Oh man, this is not for me." I looked at it more like Darwin exploring the Galápagos Islands. You know - survival of the fittest.” MenArtistSituationIndustrySurvivalIslandsExploringMusic IndustrySurvival Of The FittestGals Author:Pitbull