Making art, being creative, is risky, especially for actors, but everybody on the set is being creative. You're putting yourself out there… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
“Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it.… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“The gaze of others is quite without indulgence for our defects and that of Mantegna is pitiless. I am grateful to him.… — Marie Ferranti Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both… — Brad Delson Copy Share Image
I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers… — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“A famous artist is approached by a student. "You don't remember me," the student says correctly, "but years ago you said something… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
You can't make an artist like Lady Gaga. You can help support, you can help develop the vision - I think you… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
“The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: compared with Gothic art, above all in… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
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“Artists operating within the theistic worldview have a solid basis for their work. Nothing is more freeing than for them to realize… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
“do you want to know how to seduce the night? this is not a poem about the stars or the moon because… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
“One time, over half of my warlords refused to attend a summit because I had failed to properly address them by the… — K.S. Villoso Copy Share Image
“Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence; Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part. They taught me to… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to… — Ed Harris Copy Share Image
Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions,… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
When I was younger I would always listen to female artists that are my age now and I felt like I couldn't… — Beatrice Miller Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
You have to have your fashion stylist person not sell out and sell your s - t to another pop star because… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
“...she imagined how in the chambers of the mind and heart of the woman who was, physically, touching her, were stood, like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He smiled and squinted at me again, tilting his head up and to the right as he stared. “Maybe what I’m attracted… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Fractals, therefore, are also taken as a type of art, denoting the nature of the world around us, as well as the… — Tim Clearbrook Copy Share Image
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people… — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
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