“On the other hand, maybe what attracts us aren't the stories of falling apart so much as the stories of self-creation. The… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God,… — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I get hired as a writer or producer and I do the best I can to bring out that artist. If somebody… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
“The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and… — Edmund Snow Carpenter Copy Share Image
The exercise of magical power is the exercise of natural powers, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature. A miracle is… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You reminded me of a quote that my acting teacher Stella Adler wrote in her book ['The Art of Acting'], which I… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy.… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
I made a body of work, which was like trying to make movies on a wall and was made up of all… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“I've said this before: a lot of people think they're artists because they feel things deeply. You know, we're in a culture… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
“And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that… — Elie Faure Copy Share Image
When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it:… — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Living life as an artist is a practice. You are either engaging in the practice or you’re not. It makes no sense… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think arts should be liberal, people should be allowed to express themselves. It happens in most democratic countries in the world,… — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
There's no right way. There's no measurement system. That's why, you know, art competitions are a little confusing to me. I mean,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
“I love you and always have. The great heavens and the ultimatum of the universe have driven me straight to you…. And… — Nick Oliveri Copy Share Image
When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just… — Galarrwuy Yunupingu Copy Share Image
I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial… — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“But the operation of writing implies that of reading as its dialectical correlative and these two connected acts necessitate two distinct agents.… — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image