“Recently, a judge of the prestigious 2014 British Forward Prize for Poetry was moved to observe that “there is an awful lot… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
You can't always do that which you can do in your sleep. That doesn't fulfill an artist. You're looking for places where… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
I think that these are different times, and different things are available to artists, and certain things have become passé. You've already… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so… — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
“The work of artists and scietists is ultimately the pursuit of truth, but members of both camps understand that truth is its… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“There was an art to taking someone outside of themselves. Some people went their whole lives enjoying pleasurable sex without brushing those… — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
You know my mother during her lifetime was unable to set up a foundation for the arts. She always had that idea… — Albert II, Prince of Monaco Copy Share Image
If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way:… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And,… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
“Like most of us, Shane Niemeyer likes to test his limits. THE HURT ARTIST gave me an entirely different perspective on just… — Craig Alexander Copy Share Image
I've been doing jiu-jitsu since I was 14 years old. It actually was the martial art that was really stapled in my… — Rory MacDonald Copy Share Image
A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Having music in the schools, having art in the schools, having art in your life, should not be heroic. It should be… — David Lang Copy Share Image
With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect… — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The worldly wisdom of the foolish man Is like a sieve, that does alone retain The grosser substance of the worthless bran:… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I've realised that there's art in everything we do in London. Suddenly, a photo of two boys sitting on a wall in… — Skepta Copy Share Image
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“..the brave picture we have of humans as rational beings is utterly misleading, a kind of photograph of our surface composure and… — Arnold Weinstein Copy Share Image
I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and… — Bai Ling Copy Share Image
The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“Any chef worth his spoons learned to talk, because cooking was an art—and art was subjective. One man could love an ice… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“All we have to do when reading Bleak House is to relax and let our spines take over. Although we read with… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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