When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I just love the idea of being able to have a place where friends and family can meet, where you can raise… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements -… — Jean-Claude Ellena Copy Share Image
There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I think, honestly, hard work is the only way that you'll get anywhere and this is not an easy job. People think… — Jay Sean Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't… — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
A lot of artists I like end up being queer. Or maybe it's a subconscious thing that you can identify of, like,… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
I was an 'Ironman' fan. It was in the '70s. I definitely liked comics and drew a lot of panels on my… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To me reading is an almost sacred activity and the great novel is its high mass. The novel is so deeply powerful… — Gregory Day Copy Share Image
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The last word always belongs to the audience... that blessed connection... that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring… — Ruth Cracknell Copy Share Image
In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I just feel like, at any moment, a drag or a trans or a gender-diverse artist that doesn't fit in a box… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
As an artist, it's so important to create music that puts a chill through your body or does something to make you… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Nudity in art was rarely contested by the church until recently. It was not explicitly condemned until the anti-Protestant Council of Trent… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
“The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Ndiawar is bent to an open drawer. 'Your new art therapy person,' he says to Yang. Yang looks Day in the eye.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Art, their father had frequently told them, was exactly that: to make art is the realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
I would say if you have a dream - and whether that is you want to be some sort of artist, or… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
“Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
