Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child. — Dawn Angelique Copy Share Image
Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs — Art Wolfe Copy Share Image
If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the… — Arielle Ford Copy Share Image
First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
There were nude pictures... a lot of it is erotic or sexual. But I don't view my collection as dirty in any… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
“In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.” — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I think there's the apparent lack of subtlety and sort of make-believe anti-sensibility connected with American art. I think this is a… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I feel that the industry takes time to recognise local talent. It usually looks for artistes who are difficult to reach and… — Jagapathi Babu Copy Share Image
Literal thousands of Americans taking to the road and getting into that green automobile and just going. At the same time there… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
It's now up to the states to figure out how they implement that definition of a well-rounded education, in other words, where… — Elizabeth Blair Lee Copy Share Image
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image