There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and… — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I'd love to live nonbiologically and move about at the speed of light and be in communication with a million people at… — Barry Ptolemy Copy Share Image
A fully engaged imagination is essential to the spiritual practice of the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana School, whose artistic tradition is in service… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an… — Todd Walker Copy Share Image
I have again found, Glorious balance. Giggling along the edge of a razor, A tightrope, Seeing below me, In equal measure, Light,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
When you're jealous, especially of someone else's art or creations you automatically put up these selfish walls that reinforce your stupid ideas.… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
“What do parents look like?" "You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Sylvia’s inherent appreciation for beauty as both artist and consumer is evident in her journals and letters…….she wrote beautifully about clothes. She… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the… — Jack White Copy Share Image
“We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps -… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like… — Ben Schnetzer Copy Share Image
Con artists specialize in finding what people need, and Trump knows the media craves variety, scandal, secrets, and he-said-she-said stories, even of… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
“To me, the true artist is one who lives completely, harmoniously, who does not divide his art from living, whose very life… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In life, we have two segments: arts and science. We need science to make our lives easier. But what do we live… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
“...failure with clay was more complete and more spectacular than with other forms of art. You are subject to the elements... Any… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules. They… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we… — Andrea A. Lunsford Copy Share Image
For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“In all societies, public rhetoric involves some measure of lying, and history -- political history and art history -- is made when… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of… — Betty Churcher Copy Share Image
“A stylus was a metal-tipped drawing instrument widely used by artists before the invention of the pencil (graphite was not discovered until… — Ross King Copy Share Image
I went to an art high school in Washington D.C., and I majored in visual art. When I started there, I was… — Njena Reddd Foxxx Copy Share Image
I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant… — Roberto Burle Marx Copy Share Image
Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a very liberal community. There are a lot of guys that are also conservative that are frightened or fearful of… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image