Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of… — Stefan Themerson Copy Share Image
You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
To make a movie, and we can call it a movie or we can call it a piece of art, to make… — Casey Neistat Copy Share Image
The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as… — RZA Copy Share Image
As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
There is quite an important director in Germany who I think in the early fifties over here, and then went back, and… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art,… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, when they write a song, they put it on a pedestal - and it shouldn't be.… — CMAT Copy Share Image
If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Magic happens when the wand of language strikes a stone and makes it melt, touches a spindle and turns it into gold,… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s so you can imagine what… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
I've always felt that most jazz artists don't need producers .. most jazz artists know what kind of sound they want. They… — Christian McBride Copy Share Image
“He breathed a deep ahh and said, “Where did you learn to do that?” “Los Angeles High School of Performing Arts,” I… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as… — Clive James Copy Share Image
My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be… — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
“To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport.… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
“The idea of attention or contemplation, of looking carefully at something and holding it before the mind, may be conveyed early on… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
When I first started, stand-up comedians writing novels was thought of as a great encroachment on the art form and people got… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image