If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
“Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“second model, that of a technical or trade school, would conceive the primary task of psychoanalytic education to be the learning of… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
We, as pop stars, are people not androids. We’ve got views. I’ve got opinions and I don’t see why I shouldn’t use… — Roger Meddows Taylor Copy Share Image
I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
I think that's always the hope - I mean, I can't speak for others, but I think other artists, no matter what… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning… — Plato Copy Share Image
The 'Vampire of Ropraz' claims to be based on a true story, but the name of Rosa's father matches that of a… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Outside the world of politics, one person in the world of the arts I would mention as an influence is Nick Cave,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services]… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
“Life is not always deep, mostly it's just random. But it’s different in art. In art you can choose to show some… — Oren Lavie Copy Share Image
O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill, Fair is Thy pavilion,… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“I had been reading children's books all my life and saw them not as minor amusements but as part of the whole… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I think you can see the evolution of me as an artist, and just becoming confident and coming into my own and… — Kevin McCall Copy Share Image
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My brother was older, very bright. He went to university. I wasn't academically bright - maybe at first, when I was little,… — Suranne Jones Copy Share Image
“Well, well,” she murmurs as I back away. She makes a rectangle with her index fingers and thumbs and looks at my… — David Almond Copy Share Image
Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“You don't create or write to be successful; you don't create or paint to be famous or to increase your wealth. You… — Kelly Martin Copy Share Image
I think attempting to make art is a utopian process in itself, definitely. Nothing I do is ever equal to the ideas… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I was working with two prolific directors Raj Kapoor and Satyajit Ray at the same time. It was an amazing experience to… — Simi Garewal Copy Share Image
“I suppose that was an example of close attention to detail that is common to writers and artists. It is imperative, whether… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude.… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
But Stacie Orrico was my childhood hero. I was about 12 when I found her music. She is a contemporary Christian artist,… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image