“In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
You really just love those opportunities and being a competitior in those situations [when running against the best]. I think that's when… — Terrence Trammell Copy Share Image
“People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to… — Raoul Hausmann Copy Share Image
I didn't understand art, until one day Tom Brady took me to the museum, and we looked at the Picasso, and he… — Rob Gronkowski Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people… — Banksy Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don’t want to see the original realities – as… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I think we shall have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round and round… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind… — B.o.B Copy Share Image
We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Liberation as an intellectual mission, born in the resistance and opposition to the confinements and ravages of imperialism, has now shifted from… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
The deaf community has shaped me as an artist and a person, and I am very grateful that I have been able… — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
Stay in the present. And that's not a glib answer. The way to stay in the present is to have a love… — Dan Fante Copy Share Image
Managers all over the world will go crazy when their artists are not touting the party line and making things pretty in… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
“It has long struck me that people who attempt creative work of any type—scientific, artistic, or otherwise—without feeling any enthusiasm for that… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
A lot of time when I'm creating songs, they're in real time. When I'm writing the song, I feel what I'm feeling… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n'… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
As artists, when you have people that care about what you do, I think you should care about those people who care… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“Eco's emphasis is a productivist one: his view of sign production, and especially of the mode he calls invention, associating it with… — Teresa de Lauretis Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell you that art is the most harmless activity of mankind. But I suddenly recalled that art was often… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be-… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
'Beautiful' was something that I kept really close to my heart, that I kept from a lot of people for years and… — Amber Liu Copy Share Image
There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If black artists can win major commissions and international acclaim, why do we assume that to be black is always to be… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last.… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
I don't try to change the basic way I play with any particular artist. For instance, with Sting, I didn't do a… — Josh Freese Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“I just shook my head, knowing this was him evading the question. You," I said, "have this whole tall, dark stranger thing… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“You are liars,' I say. 'All of you. You don't lie with words, but your intent is ever to deceive.' Franco grabs… — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image