As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a session for another artist, it's a very scheduled thing, and it's kind of imperative that I write a… — MNEK Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
“Artists create holes and openings in the universe. They sidestep the conventional, conditional, predictable and habitual, and they illuminate and connect different… — Mary Button Durell Copy Share Image
Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
“Choreographer Twyla Tharp, who directed the opera and dance scenes for the film Amadeus, has this to say about the film’s portrait… — Mark McGuinness Copy Share Image
The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as… — Ben van Berkel Copy Share Image
Arriving home on a weeknight is guaranteed to be the least relaxing part of my day. The door opens, and two Tasmanian… — Chris Morocco Copy Share Image
We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
“Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Why don't you focus more on what makes you brilliant and less on what makes you angry? You are missing a key… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Insecurities and missteps can plague writers and artists who come from rural places. We worry that our provincial life experiences won't gain… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
You have to be ahead of your game, and in industry that is a different condition than in art. If you make… — Ross Lovegrove Copy Share Image
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Without music I wouldn't have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has… — Gideon Glick Copy Share Image
I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
“You shouldn’t hold on to things, to neuroses. People-artists-think they have to hold on to their neuroses, their pains, or they won’t… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Time and persistence has shown me that I can succeed at sharing my art with others as a musician while running my… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
What really shifted my understanding of my potential placement in the world of art is when I had a chance to choreograph… — Morley Copy Share Image
While I have been photographing for over 48 years now, there is so little time for me to be actually photographing that… — Walter Paul Bebirian Copy Share Image
We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power,… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much… — Noah Porter Copy Share Image
In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“His addiction to millenarianism, his confidence in visions, his prophetic stridency, his hatred of art, and his mistrust of secular scholarship align… — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I want to create work that extends beyond myself because I always thought it was a way to change the general rules… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
