In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not like follow them. Because if I chose to follow… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
The American dream is Chance the Rapper, or 'little Chano from 79th' who hails from Chicago's Southside and became the first artist… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
It is the greatest reward for me to share my story, my art, and my work. And people receiving that and being… — Alyssa Edwards Copy Share Image
For me, my faith dictates everything I do, so no matter what I'm saying in my art, my faith is the driver… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
No artist gets work through an agency and it's only working artists who keep getting more work. — Sana Khan Copy Share Image
“Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.” — Matthew Gallaway Copy Share Image
Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions. — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
I think martial arts, in general, shaped my wrestling style. I think I grew up as a martial artist as a kid. — Samoa Joe Copy Share Image
“O you who honor art and science both, who are these souls whose dignity has kept their way of being, separate from… — Dante Canto IV Inferno Copy Share Image
I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro. — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. — Marston Morse Copy Share Image
The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist. — Armand Trousseau Copy Share Image
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the… — Common Copy Share Image
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes. — Gil J Wolman Copy Share Image
A lot of my personality and my affinity for certain pieces of pop culture and art all stem from a sort of… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
“Later, given political changes and the deterioration of the world, nobody in the government thought about either arts or letters.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me. — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
