In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art, identifies this reluctance. He calls it resistance. He writes, “There is a force resisting… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“But the long tunnels of art through which I walked in Rome that day had no ragged edges, cowardly colors, or shades… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Fair enough,” he said. “But I went to that party sophomore year because I found out you were going and … I wanted… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share,… — Julie Moir Messervy Copy Share Image
The Australian Gerald Murnane, a genius on the level of Beckett, is known in Australia and Sweden but almost nowhere else. And… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
I always say that drag queens are like an exaggeration of women, and I'm like an exaggeration of drag queens. People ask,… — Trixie Mattel Copy Share Image
“It's of some interest that the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It's… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When I think that I started this career so early, my case is not the case of an artist who becomes popular… — Shakira Copy Share Image
“Art invites us to become explorers and excavators of our vast internal landscapes, discovering new terrain and digging deep into the past… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of… — Raymond Rubicam Copy Share Image
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Of course you have to provide for the vulnerable and the children, but also, the vulnerable and the children need art in… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
“She has the kind of beauty that takes your breath from your lungs, tears from your eyes and speeds your heart each… — Kirk Diedrich Copy Share Image
Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Art should be able to be innovative without compromising itself. That's why I believe artists should have bigger preoccupations than checking the… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
I want to see more people of different backgrounds being cast in films. I want to see people from inner cities being… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes,… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then… — Keenen Ivory Wayans Copy Share Image
Merantau' was my attempt to infuse drama with martial arts. It was a bit of a mixed bag for me. I'm super… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were… — Jeff Mathews Copy Share Image
Normally if you add information to information, you have more information. In case of my art, I destroy information, I would say,… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet,… — Carson Grant Copy Share Image
Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space -… — John Updike Copy Share Image
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“This time when she picked up her paints, she didn’t think, she just painted. It was like opening the door onto a… — Michelle Frost Copy Share Image
A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“She looked down and saw hundreds of fragments of her face reflected back, a sliver of cheek, of throat, of eye. Who… — Coco Mellors Copy Share Image
If I choose this platform [The Black Arts Movement] and God validates this platform, I feel like we have to use the… — Kofi Siriboe Copy Share Image
And if you were a very sophisticated con artist, what would you do to convince people that you were from the future?… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
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