“Though I remember, sharply, last things. The last book she read. The last play (and film, and concert, and opera, and art… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I always like to remain a fan, put it that way: and I like to hold the idealised version of what these… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age.… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
Mos is a true artist who has a story to tell and gives back through his music. He remixed my song 'Different'… — Goapele Copy Share Image
Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 — 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
For me, now, feminist art must show a consciousness of women's social and economic position in the world. I also believe it… — Suzanne Lacy Copy Share Image
“I'd attended a selective liberal arts college, trained at respectable research institutions, and even completed a dissertation for a doctoral degree. In… — Alex Kudera Copy Share Image
I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by the time he was… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
“The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
“As long as art is understood and valued as an “absolute” activity, it will be a separate, elitist one. Elites presuppose masses.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I thought of the cool, fresh air of the city I'd always dreamed of living in. The art museums and trolleys and… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
How did you learn all this?" Vic sighed. "See, while you spend all your time making out with Balthazar, and Raquel stays… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
A man has a choice. I chose the impossible. I built a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you step inside a set and transform into a character, it's your first brush with that role. It doesn't matter who… — Aditi Rao Hydari Copy Share Image
Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“You teach the reader that he’s way smarter than he thought he was. I think one of the insidious lessons about TV… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
I get kind of tired of the "But it's your life!" attitude about memoir. I wrote. I engaged in artistic production. I… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
![“[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.” quote by Gustave Flaubert](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/110/gustave-flaubert-354_art_the-artist-is-like-a-pump-he-has-inside_2105838.jpg)
![“I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's relationship to the history of art and the practice of art at arm's length, the ability to sort of clinically and coldly remove oneself from the picture and to see it simply as a set…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d03/kehinde-wiley-1194_ability_i-think-one-of-the-things-that-i-took-fr_1847799.jpg)
![“I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It's a really weird job but I enjoy it.” quote by Brian K. Vaughan](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e51/brian-k-vaughan-2421_art_i-write-the-book-for-one-person-for-fion_1605510.jpg)
