It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
“And let’s debunk one bit of writer myth while we’re here: Doing a seventeenth revision on a project does not make a… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
I always ask any of the artists that open up if they know 'Family Tradition', since that's my last song in the… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
“Many modern artists, philosophers, and theologians reject the knowledge of the past. Thus they must continually start over again from ground zero,… — Gene Edward Veith Jr Copy Share Image
The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty,… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
I've been a visual artist my entire life, so translating music to imagery has always come naturally to me. Tycho is an… — Tycho Copy Share Image
An album for me as a teenager in the '70s was a fully formed concept. It was a body of work from… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
I went to an art school and you learn very quickly there that you're only as good as your next idea, not… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, some of the young talants are becoming fashionable. And anything that's fashionable can become unfashionable. So one has to watch that.… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
I think America is really well-positioned, because we do train people to be creative and sometimes resist authority, which helps in being… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
For artists, looking back in time for ideas is commonplace, but there's an overwhelming sense of '70s and '80s nostalgia in California… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
Be careful what you wish for, I guess. I believe - this will sound bloated, but I believe it - that true… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So,… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a rebellious artist, a lot of people have said that about me because I came from… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
“It’s up to the writer and the artist to give voice to these people. There are two impulses in art: one is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“I don't do martial arts for trophies or for fun. I'm a fighter, and I train to win any fight I'm in.… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
In my life I have had to work through problems of stigmatization and prejudice. When I discovered the power of the arts… — Reza Abdoh Copy Share Image
“All art, be it writing, painting, film, dance, whatever, is a manipulation of time and space. It’s an interpretation and a recreation… — Elisa Lorello Copy Share Image
It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art.… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke… — Woody Allen 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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