Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy,… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so… — Gia Coppola Copy Share Image
I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
“It is a matter of artistic instinct. In his own thoughts and feelings and way of doing things an actor is worth… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off… — William Attwood Copy Share Image
I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Since I started making art, I've always had some kind of project that was really about and for other people, because I… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
When I look at my childhood art, it's the same. It's animals dressed up as people in patterned clothing. It basically looked… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life…Live simply. Don’t… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
If I can reach the guy in Alabama that hunts, and he hears that song, and he sees me - like, he's… — Luke Combs Copy Share Image
Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work; it's not because of this… — D.A. Wallach Copy Share Image
I'd have to say that the things that mean the most to me are the examples of original comic art that I'm… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“… the conjunction of Beethoven’s last symphonic masterpiece with crucial works or events in the lives of so many other outstanding artists… — Harvey Sachs Copy Share Image
The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and… — Michael Lang Copy Share Image
The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mystery is great, that's what art is and I think when you can leave your imagination to grow, it's good. I just… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual,… — Alexej von Jawlensky Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I like pop music, especially Crosby, Nash, Stills and Young, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon - he's broken up with Art Garfunkel… — Caroline, Princess of Hanover Copy Share Image
The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
