At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with… — Nicholas Ozeki Copy Share Image
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
I don't believe that Dana White is a martial artist. I don't see a martial way that he is following. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive. — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves... Honor and love him...do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything,… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major… — Louise Slaughter Copy Share Image
My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out… — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
Where war destroys, art inspires. And in order to inspire, you need to penetrate the brain. In order to penetrate the brain,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure. — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
“The more I indulge in art, the more I become lost for words, because each stroke is my confession and each shade… — Sanya Antoine Copy Share Image
People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art,… — Efraim Zuroff Copy Share Image
The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and… — George Bellows Copy Share Image
Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing. — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The animators working with these 3D models, they're artists, right? They're great at what they do. They're artful in how they move… — Aaron Ehasz Copy Share Image
I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows. — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself. — Frank Tyger Copy Share Image
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could,… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking. — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
