Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
To be earning a living as an artist at any time, any place is kinda the ultimate gift that you can receive… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
“And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the… — Robin Oliveira Copy Share Image
The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
“It takes me living an intentional, mindful, and quiet life to hear or see what’s here. Great art doesn’t necessarily create something… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
“We are all so afraid of uncertainty that we want a guarantee before we even try. We want evidence that if we… — Mel Robbins Copy Share Image
Improv is a fun thing to do on stage with others, sketch comedy is a great way to showcase your writing and… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Art is painful, Layla. It’s potentially dangerous. Explosive. It takes everything from you, sometimes more than you can afford. It’s a beast,… — Saffron A. Kent Copy Share Image
“Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Having that little bit of breathing room to work, and not feeling like it's going to fall apart at any second, has… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
“He motions to the glue brush. "Can I have some?" I start to grab it so I can pass it to him.… — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
“The Urban Simulation Team at UCLA has created a truly incredible online simulation of the 1893 Columbian Exposition that made me feel… — Rysa Walker Copy Share Image
“Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour - that is all. It… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The Golden Bough captured the imagination of many artists in the early twentieth century. Eliot, certainly, was immersed in it, discussing it… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
I’ve broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music.… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
I believe all artists, if they are not lying to themselves, must believe that the best part of their work, or even… — Jan Saudek Copy Share Image
“The children had never been to a museum before. "Will it be like school?" they wanted to know. "Will it be like… — Laurent de Brunhoff Copy Share Image
In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait,… — Jake Owen Copy Share Image
It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for… — John Currin Copy Share Image
Music is an art that goes well beyond science. Proof can be found in the huge amount of studies that have been… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates… — David Walker Copy Share Image
“This is one of the chief differences between a child's experience of a favorite book and an educated adult's. For the adult,… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
The population increasing, some of it could be in countries we haven't thought of making art in. I've never entertained making comedy… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Hopefully this is going to be a trend, the beginning of a movement to reclaim theater for the artist and not commerce.… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some… — Richard Howells Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He… — David Bennun Copy Share Image