Constant contact is what people require these days. It's tough on artists. — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The arts are tremendously powerful in bringing people with opposing views together. — Michael Feinstein Copy Share Image
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“The function of art is to make people like life more than they do.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. --Havelock Ellis — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I was a complete anomaly in this business. I didn't fit into the Hema Malini-Zeenat Aman commercial cinema mould, neither the Shabana… — Soni Razdan Copy Share Image
“In the fall nature informs of its artistic side. It continues to confirm the beauty of the world. Nature is art perfected.” — Nature is art Fall season Art informs Copy Share Image
I made my living as an actor, and I love acting, so I'm an actor. But that gets you in a lot… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
“Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
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
Cartooning isn't really drawing, any more than talking is singing... The possible vocabulary of comics is by definition unlimited, the tactility of… — Chris Ware 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
The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
“the artist sees things that normal people are in too big a hurry to see.” — Anne Charnock Copy Share Image
When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues. — John Kani Copy Share Image
When I got into high school, my favorite artist was definitely Janet Jackson. — Rutina Wesley Copy Share Image
“The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I'm retired from mixed martial arts but I'm not retired from making money. — Uriah Hall Copy Share Image
I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image