If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies,… — Pauli Murray Copy Share Image
“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep… — Margaret Caroline Anderson Copy Share Image
The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life… — Plato Copy Share Image
“...TV and popular film and most kinds of 'low' art-- which just means art whose primary aim is to make money-- is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in… — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
“ah yes, you like to cook, don't you? well, i used to. you need real dedication. fresh ingredients, a discerning palate, an… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply,… — Winsor McCay Copy Share Image
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I like everything about you, Larry. I like the way you look and how you’re so clever, and I like it when… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
“[Original text in French] Giovanni n'avait pas menti. Sagra était une merveille baroque, une collision improbable et inquiétante de la nature et… — Julien Gracq Copy Share Image
I wrote my own first book about the defense of television as an art form in 1992. It was harder to make… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
I would begin by collecting lithographs and etchings. It's a way of coming in and benefiting from real quality art. Even younger… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
Art is about the context in which it is made as much as the object itself; objects take on different meanings in… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
“...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an ancient art that rarely receives the respect it deserves. Is it even possible to find someone these days with… — Erika Eichenseer Copy Share Image
The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life. When he has the daring to open doors… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
There's a history of artists being taken advantage of, and artists have to keep criticizing and keep skepticism at a high level.… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
“The period before the deluge was the one of revelation in the Mesopotamian mythology, when the basis of all later knowledge was… — Amar Annus Copy Share Image
Certainly I enjoy the outré and I enjoy artistic comics and surrealism in comics very much. But the decision I made and… — Michael Kupperman Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
I think festivals are way more easygoing than back-to-back tours are. 'Cause for me, when you get to go to a festival,… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in philosophy, but I don't' think there are any philosophers anymore. Now it's artists. It's a visual thing… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
Our Hip-Hop is different from the commercial Hip-Hop of today. You don't have a lot of artists drawing today the way they… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
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