The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be… — Yuna Copy Share Image
... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon. — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition. — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He glanced down at the movie poster art that had been skillfully airbrushed not his custom apron, thanks to Lani's interesting assistant,… — Donna Kauffman Copy Share Image
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
To brutally summarise a lot of scholarly texts, contemporary art is made possible by neoliberal capital, plus the Internet, biennials, art fairs,… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time:… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good. — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I was always interested in the ocean and also in art. I had to figure out how to put the two together,… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art. — Mitski Copy Share Image
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Dance removes you from this construct of the world that you have, and it's a conversation that you're having with people. That's… — Stephen Boss Copy Share Image
“I am so fortunate to be red! I'm fiery. I'm strong. I know men take notice of me and that I cannot… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time. — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist. — August Kleinzahler Copy Share Image
I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history. — Carlton J. H. Hayes Copy Share Image
You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Yes we are Artist when we even express our anger, it becomes art in other people eyes !! — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I am a religious person and after discussions with my interior decorator, she gave me digital art wallpaper cut-outs of Radha Krishna… — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
“Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
