“Maybe it's the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older people and then consumed by… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
For instance, members of the elite will never allow their children to become musicians normally, because it's - not embarrassing - but… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
It's so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago.… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
Think of it as branding your work. If youre funny, add a little humor into it. If youre an artist, decorate it… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema;… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
We don't sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I'll never find a Taylor Swift. You can't find a new Madonna,… — L.A. Reid Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
The Internet is full of strangers, generous strangers who want to help you for no reason at all. Strangers post poetry and… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Somewhere in my soul a thought went up in my mind today that I have had before, but did not finish, some… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the novel is a more perfect life and reality, which God creates through us. Perhaps we live only to create it.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
When it comes to art in general now, we've become so aware of our influence. We know when people are listening, when… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when… — Lainie Kazan Copy Share Image
I never set out to be a groundbreaking artist in the sense of doing something that's never been done before. I set… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and… — Grant H. Kester Copy Share Image
As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“Growing up in NYC,The broken sidewalks, graffiti filled subways, and humid Laundromats, did not offer solace. I found solace in the strings… — Susan Anne Russell Copy Share Image
Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
The average tax payer is not a big voluntary supporter of the arts. The only art that the average taxpayer buys voluntarily… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“One person's normal is another person's Shattering." Your face aches from smiling. There is an art to smiling in a way that… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Is it really your intention to be a soldier, Morley?" Askell asked. "Wouldn't it make more sense for you to study the… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
“Véra assumed her married name almost as a stage name; rarely has matrimony so much represented a profession. It was one of… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Great, she didn't lie to me. "Mind if I tag along with you? I would love to have some company. Please don't… — Sharon Carter Copy Share Image
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
“Beauty! Art! Wit! Wonderment! Humility! Arrogance! Style! Virtue! Decency! Patience! And all the others, Gone, trampled by the Newly-polished jack boots Of… — Alec Wilder Copy Share Image
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Picasso sure had a thing for naked women. Why not draw them with their clothes on? Who sits around without a shirt… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to… — Maxine Greene Copy Share Image
“Watchman, what of the night? So many victims in so many places need help. We need, above all, to be shaken out… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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