Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Our advertising and even our arts convey the idea that we [Americans] as a society are brash, irreverent, and free of all… — Garret Keizer Copy Share Image
Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is… — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I'm trained in mixed martial arts. I started when I was 14 and did my first competition at 18. It was a… — Sydney Sweeney Copy Share Image
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible,… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable masks of black frock coat and veil,… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within I am awake… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
“If the two meanings of 'heart' are 'center' and 'part,' then the word 'art' also forms a perplexing doubleness: it is something… — Brenda Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that most people in America would really like to be able to get a job where they… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Good art is like a sexy pair of lips—it has the potential to say so much, but prefers to have you do… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Self-doubt can be an ally. This is because it serves as an indicator of aspiration. It reflects love, love of something we… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I remember when we were doing "Batman Begins" and to watch Chris Nolan go from "Memento" to "Batman" and take that leap… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
Every step on my way to becoming an artist seemed preordained. The right people were always in the right places at the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, Fassbinder's films showed that with the help of art it is possible to defend oneself against the destructive forces… — Christian Braad Thomsen Copy Share Image
Breathing is the first act of life and the last. Our very life depends on it. Since we cannot live without breathing… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Salman was an amazing human being. There are lot of things about him for years, but he's one of the most genuine,… — Kubra Sait Copy Share Image
Honestly, I've been reading a lot of books on visual art. I've been reading a lot of books by Olivia Lang, I've… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
“And health in art - what is that? It has nothing to do with a sane criticism of life. There is more… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure… — Zelda Fichandler Copy Share Image
As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit.… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips:… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image