There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up for the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“What’s ensued is a battle over ethical conduct, artistic freedom, and censorship in which every side—the activist zealots who threatened violence, the… — Andrea K. Scott Copy Share Image
The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I think middle America has changed very, very much. I think people are way more open-minded. I think - I think it's… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Instead of giving all your best tracks to artists, producers now have the opportunity where we can take our favorite beats we… — Murda Beatz Copy Share Image
I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club.… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting… — John Musker Copy Share Image
“Pop music does not throw the same cultural weight it once did; its ideas and challenges are no longer central to social… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There is a discrepancy of somebody going to an art dealer and promising what they'll make for the next three years. And… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
The '70s were full of creativity. Everybody was so unique. It was a very creative period, and I think to be a… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
When I was at school, you couldn't draw and be into football, too. If you were into art, then you were seen… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the… — Catherine Ingram Copy Share Image
As I've got older, I've got into doing much more stand-up, and much more writing and directing, and so there's been this… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I've got a twin sister who's an artist and growing up I was always "the loud one." She's not actually quiet at… — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
Since I’m presuming you don’t mean you finally bought him a leash, let me say simply that there is a big difference… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
I am extremely happy. It's just an amazing feeling to be in this space at this stage of my life after all… — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“The political independence of a nation must not be confused with any intellectual isolation. The spiritual freedom, indeed, your own generous lives… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
“Is, er, your friend a member of college staff?" "No, Al's an artist. And, ah, he's my partner," Larry said. I like… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“You must first reach a certain level in your own art before studying other arts. Too much looking around is not good… — Dan Johns Copy Share Image
My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work… — Hope Larson Copy Share Image
Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a good bar fight, properly executed and healthily ended, is not merely annoying boorishness. The best of them -… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
