The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even with so many artists using auto-tune, there's still a growing group of artists rising up and going in the opposite direction,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
There's a real power in collaboration. I've found that in collaborating while making art, it takes you to a place that you… — Robin Standefer Copy Share Image
“From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Professional wrestling... is no different than a Broadway play except that in a Broadway play, actors are using dialogue to tell a… — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
To brutally summarise a lot of scholarly texts, contemporary art is made possible by neoliberal capital, plus the Internet, biennials, art fairs,… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
“He glanced down at the movie poster art that had been skillfully airbrushed not his custom apron, thanks to Lani's interesting assistant,… — Donna Kauffman Copy Share Image
“She was rare, few and far between She suspected he would be as well And the thought of two rare, few and… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
The reality of recording, it's one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right,… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time:… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art, the way Melville… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I think it all comes from the same source, really, the writing of music, the writing of words, the playing of music.… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
“There has never been any art or literature without drink and there never will be…Unless something is done about the matter [prohibition]… — Joseph Pennell Copy Share Image
“Whereas an art that affects you in the moment, but which you then find hard to remember, is straining to bring you… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
Success in the art world means getting invitations to exhibit in some great places. I had shown in contemporary art museums in… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Most artists are going into the studio for a fixed period of time, and they say that's their album. I can't relate,… — Kelela Copy Share Image
Anything that's really good, everybody wants to put their hands on. The multimedia puts their hands on it and everything happens that… — Nas Copy Share Image
“Art—real art—connects artists, and their art, and those who experience their art, to the metaphysical background of the world, to the imaginal… — Stephen Harrod Buhner Copy Share Image
I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of… — Morgan Llywelyn Copy Share Image
“One might be tempted to extol as an advance over Sophocles the radical tendency of Euripides to produce a proper relation between… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“The theory of 1,000 true fans states that an artist (not just writers, but musicians, filmmakers, carpenters, whatever) need only acquire 1,000… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
Criticism on my works is like this: you've worked hard all of your life, you went to Oxford, and you've done this… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to be an example for all the young artists that are becoming artists every day and working on their… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel… — Christopher Knight Copy Share Image
That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Producers are the people behind the biggest artists in the game. We definitely deserve that title to be considered as an artist,… — Murda Beatz Copy Share Image
Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts,… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“The art, the art of living, involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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