My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Snow-melt in the stream: Mama Nature turning winter's storms into nourishment for the soil, fecundity, and beauty. This is what I must… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood,… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Above all, Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I really admire songwriters or any kind of writer, painter or artist that says, "I'm going to get up at 8 o'clock… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
With food, you're the artist; you put the colour in it, you present it to the table and it has the ability… — Anthony Warlow Copy Share Image
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists… — Rachael Price Copy Share Image
I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner are the funniest dudes ever, and they have great careers on their own. They made great art… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist. If you're wandering… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby,… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
With success it's like 60% talent, maybe 20% luck and then 20% being at the right place at the right time. There… — Seth Troxler Copy Share Image
We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
“Be always adventurous in the creating and sharing of your art in any form. Take risks and do not settle for playing… — Alison Blackmore Copy Share Image
“Does Ebui dream of a private grave? People in fancy dress eulogizing, laying down their offerings. Or does she dream past the… — Johnny Firic Copy Share Image
The really creative person is not interested in dominating anybody. He is so utterly rejoicing in life - he wants to create,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you bury me in a grave, don't ever come visit - because you won't find me there. You'll find me in… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
In political sense, it doesn't really matter what I do on my own, but it's so important to rally some sort of… — Katie Stelmanis Copy Share Image
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
When a young artist asks me a question, I want to do what I can to give them an answer if I… — Michael Tait Copy Share Image
Because many of the films I've made have had an intellectualedge, it's harder for me to lie. It's harder for me to… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“This light represents the finest of all of us: Our art, poetry and songs, discoveries, creations, and science. Our ability to pick… — Ruth Ann Oskolkoff Copy Share Image
In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering… — Andreas Gursky Copy Share Image
“Oh teach the mind t' aetherial heights to rise, And view familiar, in its native skies, Thy source of good; thy splendor… — Anicius Boethuis Copy Share Image
In my process, I am constantly moving between writing, performing, and producing art objects. These various practices inform one another. What I… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
