“Writing isn't easy because you have to relieve the most painful moments of your life, over and over again, and then you… — Cristian Mihai Copy Share Image
Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again.… — Gary Panter Copy Share Image
You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
“the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
I initially thought it was going to feel weird to be [on Sundance] while [the marches against now-President Donald Trump] was happening.… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“The tattoo artist inflicts pain and I take it. With each breath I count to one again. Each inhale, each exhale, time… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California,… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I have this theory that most artists never leave childhood, that you're endlessly trying to work out what happened. And leaving university… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
“I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
R&B stations don't say 'We have old school artist Ronald Isley in the house.' They say 'We have the legendary Ronald Isley.'… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
I don't need to control the mind of my viewer. Now this might sound contradictory because I want to make these installations… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
When we teach in pluralistic ways, there are two wonderful dividends. First of all, we reach more students, because some learn best… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church.… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“As long as a man knows very well the strength and weaknesses of his teaching, his art, his religion, its power is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
Art fairs bring attention to up and coming artists and some amazing new works. They are a way to connect everyone with… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I want to get young girls excited in science, tech, engineering mathematics, art, design - and how they come together. We've got… — Kirsty Duncan Copy Share Image
Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautréamont. These are the best guys we… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
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