I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan tells interviewers what he wants to tell them, not what they necessarily want to know. His responses are really part… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“... Have you ever reflected that posterity may not be the faultless dispenser of justice that we dream of? One consoles oneself… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity,… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
“...Mathematics and music are at the opposite poles of the human spirit. These two antipodes confine and determine all creative and spiritual… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that I'm a consummate live artist. Album work is kind of just like quilt weaving or something. But live… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
“When he had finished placing the objects that would be a part of the portrait, the artist asked his subject, "Why do… — Edward Cline Copy Share Image
“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It's absolutely different. The whole situation… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part,… — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
“The world, every day, is New. Only for those born in, say, 1870 or so, can there be a meaningful use of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote. The truth is death, he wrote. I’ve fought nicely against it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Ever reviled, accursed,-n'er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. "Wreck of all order," cry the multitude, "Art thou, and… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
I'm 19 years old. I think I'm doing a pretty good job...Basically from my heart I really just want to say it… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Where is the line between art and pornography? But there’s always been a huge overlap between the two; you can see scenes… — Alastair Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Writers should find out where joy resides and give it a voice. Every bright word or picture is a piece of pleasure… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
Humans need to feel effective - to feel that we can "make a dent," as he puts it. So the art of… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA… — Vivian Campbell Copy Share Image
The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“ And as an artist, as someone who writes stories and tries to make words into beautiful forms, it's vitally important to… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image