Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“When I was a young man, King Francois of France greatly admired my bare buttocks. I have that information only by hearsay,… — Alan Fisk Copy Share Image
Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“If we will not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work, the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The right idea, one that is in productive sync with one’s talents, can unlock a whole worldview. If that idea is also… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“I believe in making my potential models comfortable,’ he explained when she shot a surprised look at him. ‘I’m considerate, unlike some… — Christine Stovell Copy Share Image
Life and love inspire me. I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being. I… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
“Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Don't ever believe someone that tells you "you're the next big thing". You're not. I'm not. Those people will come and go.… — Matthew Mayfield Copy Share Image
“Aunts are to be a pattern and example to all aunts; to be a delight to boys (and girls) and a comfort… — Dave Isay Copy Share Image
I'd become very involved in the production, so the albums were taking longer. So it was never a deliberate decision not to… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The machinery of the sky that confounds us on earth with endless transformations of clouds in the light of dawn does not… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Hunger Howls You will always feel hungry if you keep starving yourself to feed others The vacant call from your belly is… — Christine Evangelou Copy Share Image
God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 31 remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
Aw man. All Im gonna say is that I got my label. Im not 100% sure its gonna fall under Aftermath-Interscope. Im… — The Game Copy Share Image
When I go and write with other artists - a lot of the time it's with them - it's like a therapy… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of… — Gabrielle Bell Copy Share Image
I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Everything an artist does is scary, but we do it anyway. If someone tries to steer you off-course, push them outta the… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
“Pornography won’t be enough. Because it never is. Sooner or later, all niggers want to touch the real thing. All dogs want… — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When I wrote for myself before as an artist, I probably wrote about 15, 20 songs a year. I thought that was… — LP Copy Share Image
We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old.… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
“In times when evil comes because men misunderstand and hate one another, it is the mission of the artist to praise sweetness,… — George Sand Copy Share Image
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