Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
That two bodies press convulsively together, man and woman, he fertilizing her, he giving her a budding life, or he planting a… — Gustav Vigeland Copy Share Image
I could see how artists like Parliament would revisit the same music and kinda change it a little bit, change the words… — Too Short Copy Share Image
People understand the simplicity of violence, and martial arts has always been about the more efficient way to deliver said violence upon… — Samoa Joe Copy Share Image
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Even at the beginning when I arrived at Givenchy, there were certainly people who supported me, but not everyone loved me. They… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
“One learns first of all in beach living the art of sheding;how little one can get along with, not how much…To say-is… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Who Am I? I’m a creator, a visionary, a poet. I approach the world with the eyes of an artist, the ears… — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
It's really not easy to be an artist. It's not easy to put yourself out there and be honest. I'm making things… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
Saturday morning cartoons do that now, where they develop the toy and then draw the cartoon around it, and the result is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of the hard things coming from an immigrant family - or any family that doesn't believe in the arts - is… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I like charcoal drawing a lot. I'm not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I'm on… — Ben Schnetzer Copy Share Image
Living where I live New York I don't think anyone's going to make a fuss. But it is more deeply satisfying because… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“The historical figures who earned the honorific “So-and-So the Great” were not great artists, scholars, doctors, or inventors, people who enhanced human… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are… — David Galenson Copy Share Image
I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“More than anyone I’d ever met, he seemed to participate in life as if it were art, and to practice a studied,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Much of what was to become modern art and the changed concept of the function of museums was spurred by a cadre… — Ivy Hendy Copy Share Image
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Being a young artist, you know that you're not the first and there are a lot of people who have been there… — Koffee Copy Share Image
Suddenly, after years of television being the poor relation and film being everything, it now feels like film is a conjuring trick.… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
![“No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/876/anonymous-1_abel_no-mathematician-should-ever-allow-him-t_651008.jpg)
![“[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it was, like…” quote by Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/18d/eve-babitz-19835_art_photographer-julian-wasser-had-this-grea_14326.jpg)
![“the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/18e/t-s-eliot-633_art_the-ordinary-man-s-experience-is-chaotic_93688.png)
