“Just because I'm into this Does that mean I should live like it? And really do I dare?” — Tanya Davis Copy Share Image
Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents — Isaac Bonewits Copy Share Image
You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Art and religion -they are the same thing, in the end, of course- have given man the only happiness he has ever… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master;… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You ask me, you sound weak, you not a threat . Like Artest I don't stand too far from the best .… — Vado Copy Share Image
One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts,… — Jessica Jackley Copy Share Image
When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I've worked with a hundred of the biggest artists in the world, from Madonna to Mariah Carey, and he [Michael Jackson] is… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
What I appreciate about Sleater-Kinney is that we did six records, and they all felt different. It was a band that was… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100%… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart… — Ralph Allen Copy Share Image
There are millions of people around the world that want to be artists and want to make stuff to entertain people, but… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
“Art has one purpose, that is to leave you changed. Love has one purpose, that is to create art.” — Julieanne O'Connor Copy Share Image
I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.” — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes… — Stephen Huneck Copy Share Image
I'm probably the biggest show-off in the world. But I also happen to be an artist. You can be both, you know. — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West. — Bryan Ward-Perkins Copy Share Image
“David Brooks summarizes this reality more bluntly: “[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Rembrandt painted portraits, The Karate Kid painted fences, and I paint my toenails. But I’m not a snob, I still consider those… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
It would, of course, be wrong to say that the arts have no social value. They have tremendous power and can often,… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Art was, for Poe, the only method by which one could penetrate the shapeless empirical world in the search for order, and” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put… — James Ransone Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier! — Rachel Stevens Copy Share Image
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“For an artist, there's nothing better than having the opportunity to create a world that doesn't- but could- exist.” — Christophe Lautrette Copy Share Image
“After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image