Am I the only person who hopes that David Beckham has sex with Brad Pitt? I don't know who's in charge of… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes… — Stephen Cosgrove Copy Share Image
I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“That was always the catch. Your past came with you to your art whether you wanted it to or not. It haunted… — Kat Howard Copy Share Image
However people see me, they see me. I do know when you're in the context of a group, you're an artist that's… — B-Real Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is expensive,” she said. “This is a problem for totalitarian states. A human being with interest in leisure, art, agency—a human… — Neil Clarke Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
“Art was my little private pleasure. Nobody had seen my art, not even my parents. Andy didn't know about it. My dream… — Stephanie Witter Copy Share Image
Unless you are in a survival situation, if you allow yourself to be creative, to be thinking, to be developing, there will… — Paola Pivi Copy Share Image
“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the… — Jesse Kellerman Copy Share Image
The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope,… — John Mason Good Copy Share Image
Ask any rapper or singer what artist they are an expert on. What artist are they looking to emulate, and really, what… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
There are a lot of designers who think they understand technology and a lot of technology guys who think they understand design.… — Tony Fadell Copy Share Image
“...normally I consider nostalgia to be a toxic impulse. It is the twinned, yearning delusion that (a) the past was better (it… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Plots are interesting, characters are fascinating, scenery can be totally enveloping,” Morrison says, “but the real art is the deep structure, the… — John Freeman Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it's a good mixture… — Baran Odar Copy Share Image
Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a… — Betye Saar Copy Share Image
Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
“Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Where did you learn to do that?” “Los Angeles High School of Performing Arts,” I said. “They taught me how to open… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more complex than simplification; what art takes from enigma it more than replenishes in the instantiation of itself, in the… — Nick Land Copy Share Image
You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed… — Deb Olin Unferth Copy Share Image