Part of making art is learning how you make it best. I'm not great at sitting down at a desk and writing for three hours. I write best verbally, talking through an idea with people, so I do my best work when I collaborate.
— Nick Kroll
Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.
— Nick Harkaway
I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.
— Nick Flynn
I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
— Nick Cave
It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.
— Nick Cannon
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
— Nicholas Meyer
I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all.
— Neve McIntosh
When I came to MIT, there were four rubrics: science, art, design, and technology. And as you entered your degree, whether it was a master's or a Ph.D., if you were a citizen in one domain, you were a traveler in the other.
— Neri Oxman
I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.
— Nellie McKay
Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.
— Neil Strauss
I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
— Neil Peart
Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in a way that allows me to be a part of this reality, which I was excluded from before. Thanks to the eyeborg, I've made a career by combining music and art.
— Neil Harbisson
Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
As an actor I have no hang-ups whatsoever about cinema. It can be mainstream, art, regional or national.
— Neha Dhupia
I've spoken before on how the art of storytelling has been lost a bit. I definitely feel 'Empire' is helping to reprogram us back to that place where we pay attention and invest emotionally in the records and the artists.
— Ne-Yo
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
— Nawal El Saadawi
I'll watch anything, from action to art films.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
— Nick Jonas
In a sufficiently prosperous society where people specialize sufficiently, and where enough of the crappy work is done by machines, all work becomes art.
— Nick Hanauer
My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that.
— Nick Clegg
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
— Nicholas Sparks
I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figuratively, anyway - if we were all coding software or running companies. We also want musicians to awaken our souls, writers to lead us into fictional lands, and philosophers to help us exercise our minds and engage the world.
— Nicholas Kristof
A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
— Nelson Mandela
In March 2010, I attended an art opening for Kimberly Brooks's show 'The Stylist Project' in Los Angeles. It was a starry celebration hosted by Dior and 'Vanity Fair' to benefit P.S. Arts. But even as fun-to-gape-at actresses like Christina Hendricks arrived, I couldn't take my eyes off the oil portraits.
— Nell Scovell
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.
— Neil Simon
I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.
— Neil LaBute
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
— Neil Gaiman
In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.
Art means to dare - and to have been right.
— Ned Rorem
To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.
— Nazanin Boniadi
As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.
— Naveen Patnaik
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.
— Nick Hornby
In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.
— Nick Frost
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.
One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.
There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.
— Nicholas Mosley
Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
— Nic Pizzolatto
If you believe in Cinderella, and if you can suspend your disbelief at midnight, then you can believe in the interdisciplinary midnight, the 'in-betweens,' and become fortunately entangled, moving from art to science.
When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.
— Nelsan Ellis
If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love hearing them interviewed, I love the way they talk about their art. They're very self-assured, they're funny, they're inviting. I love it.
— Neko Case
To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.
As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
— Neil Jackson
Make good art.
In 'Bigg Boss 12' house one needs to make a mountain out of a molehill. It's an art and I don't specialise in it.
— Neha Pendse
I love doing stand up. I think it's a really worthwhile art form. It's so unique in all the things it combines, in terms of it being philosophizing, preaching, speaking truth to power and basic communicating. It's a good way to talk back to the world.
— Neal Brennan
For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
— Nawazuddin Siddiqui
The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.
— Naveen Jain
