I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience — Walter De Maria Copy Share Image
I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes… — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
“So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the… — David Elliott Copy Share Image
In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are scared when they see trumpet players show up - they like, 'Nah, that ain't what I want.'… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums,… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my… — Britt Robertson Copy Share Image
If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums. — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
A different level of musical magic is reached when the right combination of artists are collectively creating. — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative. — Nikki DeLoach Copy Share Image
You know, its like, as an artist you want to express your full self. You dont want to either have to make… — Kim Wayans Copy Share Image
“I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
I was sort of mute when I went to art school. There were two girls there who thought I was German because… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate. — Susannah McCorkle Copy Share Image
A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to… — Franklin Carmichael Copy Share Image
The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques. — Charles Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I was once judging some prisoner art, and you wouldnt believe the number of eagles and tigers and symbols of freedom and… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
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