I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I love Mexico because that's where I'm from, but my favorite city, whenever I need to recharge, I love Paris. I get… — Diego Boneta Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest limitations for an artist is not being able to dream a golden dream. We're always saying,… — Dana Tai Soon Burgess Copy Share Image
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“Because it will make a real artist of you. The more you suffer, the more grateful you ought to be. An empty… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
“In the space of a few generations a city with a population slightly less than that of present-day Stillwater, Oklahoma, produced the… — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“He considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual world. She knew, too, that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The uber polite people who are the neighbors to our north and how we can be so different and yet so the… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision… — Marcel Paquet Copy Share Image
“Art never expresses anything but itself. It has an independent life, just as thought has, and develops purely on its own lines… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation,… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
The perfect party for me is having six to 12 people for dinner Friday or Saturday - good, fun friends, a lot… — Sofia Milos Copy Share Image
Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
What is not cool is if we have a problem with an artist or if an artist has a problem with us,… — Rozonda Thomas Copy Share Image
The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet,… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“To conclude this: As when a man comes into a palace, built according to the exactest rule of art, and with an… — William Symington Copy Share Image
“Phidias and the achievements of Greek art are foreshadowed in Homer: Dante prefigures for us the passion and colour and intensity of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant… — Elton John Copy Share Image
To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
“Each weapon is a work of art, and I wonder what drives the impulse to make the instruments of death beautiful. A… — Breeana Shields Copy Share Image
“ABOUT SENTIMENTALITY IN LITERATURE: "Sentimental fiction is a kind of pablum: Excessive amounts can spoil the appetite for reality, or at least… — Alice Simpson Copy Share Image
“...it occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life. Yet the… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
A lot of sessions I do the artist isn't even there! It'll be just me and the producer cutting drums to a… — Josh Freese Copy Share Image
The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image