God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black Copy Share Image
I can't say any artist inspired me, because I'm inspired by the things that go on around me. — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
But I wanted to put on a good show and make people believe in my music more than just being another TV… — Guy Sebastian Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor… — James Grant Copy Share Image
I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light, the ways to make it through. They… — Agnes Gund Copy Share Image
“I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
“All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
“Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls’ pants - use it to get into their heads.” — Scroobius Pip Copy Share Image
“The first creation of every artist is getting carved from the best moments of his life!!” — Nelson Jack Copy Share Image
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it,… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
“Carol’s early works were inspired by her difficult divorce and inner turmoil, and she urges people to embrace the dysfunction in their… — Gwen Blakley Kinsler Copy Share Image
We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter. — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books. — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When it comes to films, so much is in the hands of bottom-line guys. There's a lot of fear involved there, and… — David Nutter Copy Share Image
“I have always been a anti-establishment artist. I once believed, and still do to some extent, that one could get a better… — Casey Carter Copy Share Image
I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter. — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy,… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts. — Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Copy Share Image
