The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My goal is to not fit in. My worst nightmare is being the baby version of another artist. — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
“You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Marriage is the art of balancing the desires of each, within the hearts of both, and doing so without uneven sacrifice of… — Renee Duvall Copy Share Image
We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
“I hate when art becomes a religion. I feel the opposite. When you start putting a higher value on works of art… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“You did study art there?" Gennie persisted. Grant watched the smoke rise and the haze of heat that rippled the air. "Why?"… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I learned dancing because I loved dancing. It took away the pain, it took away everything, I was happy when I was… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
“I don't care what a man is. I mean, a great artist is like a great doctor. I don't care how racist… — Ernest J. Gaines Copy Share Image
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“From the outside looking in, i think my life would appear very isolated, occupying a huge empty space, with hollow-sounding, emotional echoes.… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I really don't wear a lot of makeup, but my makeup artist Priscilla Ono has taught me the basics. — Amber Rose Copy Share Image
'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence. — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
Unfortunately - as I have experienced first-hand, as many artists have - there's a gaping hole between platinum and non-existent. There's no… — Lari White Copy Share Image
I don't know what I would have been doing if I was not in YG, but I think I would be doing… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of… — Keorapetse Kgositsile Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What are ideals but an admission that life is worthless? What is art but the negation of life?” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I truly believe that diversity is so important, and I hope that I can use my platform to encourage and inspire other… — Madison Beer Copy Share Image
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions. — Henry James Copy Share Image
When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves. — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is,… — J. P. McEvoy Copy Share Image
I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design… — Gabriel Basso Copy Share Image