Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts.… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I never want to be one of those artists who feels untouchable and extraordinary. I have to be genuine. — Clairo Copy Share Image
Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art. — Richie Hawtin Copy Share Image
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects.… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I… — Kristen Wiig Copy Share Image
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy. — Raul Castillo Copy Share Image
The internet is intimate. Everybody collects the art on the internet, everybody owns the art and enjoys it only for their self,… — Terence Koh Copy Share Image
Artists are never wrong when they paint revolution with the beautiful dress and with the sword. On the horse or by foot.… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you." — Ice T Copy Share Image
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Exposure to fields like design to technology and from art to psychology gave me a quite nice/interesting viewpoint to the world. — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary. — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress. — Richard B. Garnett Copy Share Image
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think 'Hamilton' has made me look at myself deeper as an artist and what I'm looking for as an artist. — Jasmine Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew… — Boy George Copy Share Image
When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And… — Larry Sanders Copy Share Image
I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
I'm reclusive when it comes to me giving art away because I get real sensitive about that and critiques. — J.I.D Copy Share Image
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
