“At such moments Gilberte’s plaits used to brush my cheek. They seemed to me, in the fineness of their grain, at once… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I think the problem for the future generations is a lot of people ain't takin' the time to look for galvanizing artists… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Thanks for your encouraging words. But I know the grim realities of being an artist. Most of us would never make a… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Make your life your art. It doesn't have to be that you're an artist. I know I talk about art a lot,… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
For me, the worst set is always when something happens to your equipment. Or back in the days your records wouldn't arrive… — Loco Dice Copy Share Image
“But what cannot be taught, fortunately or unfortunately, is the creative, expressive side of art. Most good teachers of drawing, painting, ect.,… — Edward Chase Copy Share Image
I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture -… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to… — William James Copy Share Image
“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Decorating in relation to hotels is really nothing more than planned showmanship or the art of attracting attention in a delightful way… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
There is, literally and figuratively, not a gold standard. That's almost as big a problem in art as in the financial world.… — John Currin Copy Share Image
There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“My father took me to see this film in 1950, when I was eight years old. And I’ve never forgotten it. I… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
There are things going on in galleries recently that have shocked me. What I'm going to say is really controversial, but what… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I want to record many albums, have a healthy record label with talented artists, keep building my publishing catalogue, and maintain our… — Little Louie Vega Copy Share Image
“By 1938, Scotland had for nearly 200 years lived within a classic peripheral identity assigned to it by the artists and ideologues… — Colin McArthur Copy Share Image
We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
If the artist isn't having a great day or finds it all boring, my role becomes that of a coach. Getting the… — Max Martin Copy Share Image
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It… — Gerard van der Leeuw Copy Share Image
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My mother recognized my artistic talent and looked for someone to teach me to grow my abilities. She found an artist on… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
