Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private lives out there; it's about… — John Grant Copy Share Image
Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to… — Richard Tuttle Copy Share Image
[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
It's cool how to see how my creative juices have shown themselves when they're not being used for 'Euphoria' every day. I'm… — Hunter Schafer Copy Share Image
The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward… — Beatrice M. Hinkle Copy Share Image
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a… — Henri Langlois Copy Share Image
I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The arts, the arts, the arts - I don't know why it took me so long to realize how important they are.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When you play to an audience, you come away energized. It's the promo that really breaks an artist. Some lad sitting on… — Hozier Copy Share Image
When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music… — Jay Park Copy Share Image
“Human artistic expression is blessedly, refreshingly nonessential. That's exactly why I love it so much. [...] The fact that I get to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
I don't need to live my art and almost die to understand my heroines. I want to love my sons, live quietly,… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there.… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“We, who are so schooled in the art of listening to the voices of others, can often hear our own voice only… — Florence Falk Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists that return to the same subject. Whether it's the natural subject, or the focus or the… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
“You have a disconcerting way of looking at me so directly that I feel as though you could see right through into… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career,… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
“I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re either a revolutionary or you’re not, and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
I enjoyed cross-country road trips. And I found the work challenging because it was art that existed on the land rather than… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
“I understand, my lord. I…don’t wish to embarrass you again.” “Embarrass me? Jean, you misunderstand.” Maranzalla kicked idly at the toy rapier,… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
We think it hugely important to support young artists, there is a war against that kind of artistry, that kind of creation...When… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain,… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to every woman.” It might have been a mummy dispensing elder wisdom. “One is rational, like a man.… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
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