I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something… — Ethan Slater Copy Share Image
The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Everybody likes to see a good soft-shoe dance and a song to go with It, but how often do you see It?… — Ken Berry Copy Share Image
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“The essence of humanism is that belief of which he seems never to have doubted, that nothing which has ever interested living… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“Painting. Art. This was her specialty, what she loved and understood and what could so easily entrap her in a world of… — Connie L. Smith Copy Share Image
I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
“My father said being an artist is the shortest road to the poor house , claiming "real" work is something you don't… — Russell Chatham Copy Share Image
“Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you. Go for that communion, that… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination… — Katherine Woodward Thomas Copy Share Image
To me, that's the biggest problem with hip-hop today is the fact that everyone believes that all of hip-hop is rap music,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I kept thinking about how ironic it is how people who live in places where there is diversity tend to love it… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
You never know what little bundle of encouragements artists carry around with them, what little pats on the back from what hands,… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“But I cry anyway because it was a path I could have taken and didn't. I cry for the lost idea, the… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The first time you listen to someone else's interpretation of what you've created, it's a little unnerving. They'll change lyrics or something… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
“So what was Michelangelo’s real message? “SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST”? A more profound and legitimate explanation of the Sistine is that perhaps… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my… — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
“I’m…getting there. I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it’s okay that my future is… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes, as producers, we just service the artists who's really just the main front or person. You know, our… — No I.D Copy Share Image
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Science is not formal logic-it needs the free play of the mind in as great a degree as any other creative art.… — Max Born Copy Share Image
When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did judo, so I went along because I felt like I was… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
“He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons,… — John Tavener Copy Share Image
“Earth was the shorthand name for the classroom studio, named Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Spirit. Megan thought the alchemical name was especially… — Beth Kery Copy Share Image
Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“Everything, she noticed, seemed capable of transmogrification. Even the two boulders in the backyard sometimes turned to silver in the early morning… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Being an artist is like being an athlete. You have to be in there every day, keeping in shape. You have to… — Lawrence Jordan Copy Share Image
Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
