“Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art.” — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just… — Erro Copy Share Image
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
My job as an artist is to take all my thoughts and feelings and put them on your iPod so that you… — Lalah Hathaway Copy Share Image
I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We, as spiritual beings, created the physical world as a place to learn. It's our school, our playground, our artist's studio. I… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
People say graphic design is so different now, because you have so many more pixels and colors to work with... But when… — Susan Kare Copy Share Image
“We experience [procrastination] as fear. But fear of what? Fear of the consequences of following our heart. Fear of bankruptcy, fear of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
“[Editorial cartooning] is essentially a destructive art. We are not pontificators, or molders of thought—or at least we shouldn't try to be.… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“The independence of art from worldview and worldview concerns is a myth. Every work of art is produced within a framework of… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
American students arrive at college knowing almost nothing about history, literature, art, or philosophy. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps… — Keifer Thompson Copy Share Image
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments,. — Zhang Ziyi Copy Share Image
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having. — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
All the art that's in my house is my own, which is nice because I never have to worry about buying it. — Carly Chaikin Copy Share Image
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti] — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you &… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings — George Tooker Copy Share Image
“I say, there is no darkness but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image