“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.” — Arthur Holitscher Copy Share Image
With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please! — William T. Wiley Copy Share Image
I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me. — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
“art”? Simply stated, give control away when you don’t need it, so you can get some back when you do!” — Jim Fay Copy Share Image
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“It was the artist’s duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience’s job to decipher meaning. If the piece failed to… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“My child has to be an artist, because conceiving her will be the best art my body has ever accommodated.” — Nomthandazo Tsembeni Copy Share Image
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with. — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at… — Ron Sexsmith Copy Share Image
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“God, O God, where art thou? Thou art as distant to me as the lady combing rice in the Yunnan Province of… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
While studying art and design at Central Saint Martins, I went round supermarkets taking photos of shoppers and their baskets: the game… — Rachel Khoo Copy Share Image
You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the… — Medardo Rosso Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's necessary for soaps to hang on to an audience by sensationalizing, but it's a beast I don't understand any more,… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that. — Chris Stokes Copy Share Image
As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood. — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
