“Poetry is a machine that manufactures love. Its other virtues escape me.” — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I… — Guinevere Van Seenus Copy Share Image
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life. — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
“Thunder Road' knows who I am and what I feel, and that, in the end, is one of the consolations of art.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“Because it will make a real artist of you. The more you suffer, the more grateful you ought to be. An empty… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“He considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual world. She knew, too, that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way. — Daniele Vare Copy Share Image
God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“Be more of an artist, and “load every rift” of your subject with ore.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
If a character artiste accepts too many small roles his career dies a slow death. — Mukesh Rishi Copy Share Image
for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art. — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well. — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
