Staying true to my vision, to the word as it comes to me, to my own aesthetic judgments, even when they disagree… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
“There could be no objection to homicidal art as art. One could certainly object that an artwork made out of dead bodies… — John McAteer Copy Share Image
“She needed a confessor! Would she find it there, in the world of the artists? All over the world they had their… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it… Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
What inspires me today is a desire to get closer to an understanding of what my artistic capacities are with the hope… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
I'm a planner, an organizer. I write things down because you can visually check them off and see progress. Writing things down… — Will Grier Copy Share Image
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art,… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
“You break through the veil whenever you strap on a sword or chant the ancient verses. You escape when you write a… — Jef Murray Copy Share Image
He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of… — Bible Copy Share Image
“To question the world around us and all its complexities is not blasphamy, but simply using the mind God gave us for… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred to… — Wendy Froud Copy Share Image
There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore.… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
My favorite places in Moscow are the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art - it has a wonderful collection of Impressionists - the… — Sasha Pivovarova Copy Share Image
“Through depression and many other dark low emotions, our Light dims and our immune system declines along with it. White blood cells… — Jacqueline Ripstein Copy Share Image
It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an… — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly...… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art.… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I've never had a mentor personally of any kind. It feels like, generally, in the writing world or the art world, it's… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
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Claude Cahun is a fascinating artist - one of the few women to be part of the surrealist movement, she and her… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst of class… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
I had no special training at all; I am completely self-taught. I don’t fit the mold of a visual arts designer or… — Toru Iwatani Copy Share Image
“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
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