Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“The most frequently cited artists and curators travel extensively and there is a real difference in saying whether concepts and other contributions… — Charlotte Bydler Copy Share Image
“You're going to be a famous artist." His voice is deep velvet - soothing and sure. "You'll live in one of those… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I was in '97, I didn't know I was in a very major moment. But with the privilege of reflection, I… — Mara Brock Akil Copy Share Image
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“I was sitting with the rest of my college graduating class listening to the commencement speaker prepare us for life after graduation,… — Doug Lansky Copy Share Image
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible… — Max Depree Copy Share Image
As the times are changing, you don't hear as many sample issues with rap artists. Part of that has to do with… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think of myself, an Iranian/American artist, and wonder what would I want if I'm ever imprisoned by the Iranian government for… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
“Cherokee stories have been passed down through many generations. Storytelling is an art form. Storytellers are actors, singers, dancers, and mimes who… — Rennay Craats Copy Share Image
I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't… — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
I didn't see many female politicians on TV. I didn't see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody becomes an actor to serve theatre or to serve art anywhere. We all become actors because we are… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
Sometimes people associate getting big with selling out, which is funny because that's not something you necessarily have choice in. That's not… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“I feel about Manhattan the way I feel about a book, a TV series, a movie, a play, an artist, a song,… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
The difference between EAZY E the artist and Eric Wright the human being, was two separate worlds apart. Behind closed doors, Eazy-E… — Kokane Copy Share Image
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Almost every artistic nature is born with a revealing connoisseurial tendency that appreciates injustice so long as it results in beauty and… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
'Dawson's Creek' was my introduction to the industry. It put some money in my pocket and it put me in the position… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is…Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new… — Del tha Funkee Homosapien Copy Share Image
“Methought the germ of it was dead in me! Oh, Hester, thou art my better angel! I seem to have flung myself—… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is an art, a deeply political art, of taking circumstances as they arise and attributing them to your side or the… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
