I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“No, the art of government was to curb and guide men’s greedy appetites into useful courses, so that, as the Scottish economist… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
The whole point of what i do - the monster ball, the music, the performance art aspect of it, i wanna create… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look -… — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
“Often dismayed by but generally unflinching in the face of perpetual adversity, he [W.E.B. Du Bois] engaged the battle for equal human… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The… — Michelangelo Pistoletto Copy Share Image
The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“I think that there is a terrible possibility now, in the World. We may not brush it away, we must look at… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Fifteen minutes of fame doesn't make a career. An article in a magazine, newspaper, interview on television or multiple print ads may… — Jack White Copy Share Image
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history. The masses had been desensitized… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
“I have this -- here’s this thing where it’s going to sound sappy to you. I have this unbelievably like five-year-old’s belief… — david foster wallace Copy Share Image
I wish that I could write. I think that's a wonderful outlet for an artist. You are ultimately in control. Your fate… — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it's such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously,… — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
Some people feel that the purpose of cinema is entertainment - which in itself is a healthy enough goal, provided you define… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“...he knew of the innermost danger of all artists, he knew the utter loneliness of the man destined to be an artist,… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants,… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, language, everything that is distinctly of Man. The… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In the arts, people are always waiting for someone or some movement to "fulfill her/its/his promise." Then, half-a-dozen or a dozen years… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The wonderful news is that when a person with my lack of art background can be successful, then anyone can. I'm not… — Jack White Copy Share Image
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so.… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you… — Hugh MacLeod Copy Share Image
The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
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