“For a second, I stared at the map of her veins just under the surface of her thin skin. It was like… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as… — Mervyn Levy Copy Share Image
I lived in Italy for quite a while and married an Italian woman. While there, I immersed myself in the complete culture:… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
With a pie, the crust is a real delicacy. It's very hard to get it just right because it's got to be… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“To train in the martial arts is like being apprenticed to frustration, to the burn of effort, and the unattainable criteria of… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work… — Christo Copy Share Image
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
“Art is central to all our lives, not just the better-off and educated. . . I know that from my own story,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
In truth, a label is nothing more than a corporation, and it funds artists. Why couldn't another corporation fund an artist? And… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“If all, or almost all, the plays that are popular now, imaginative works as well as historical ones, are known to be… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Realizing that our minds control our bodies while our bodies reflect our minds amounts to understanding the most fundamental aspects of ourselves.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot help thinking that the death of the young is not in the plan of our being, and that we are… — Georgiana Burne-Jones Copy Share Image
“The desire to make art begins early. Among the very young this is encouraged (or at least indulged as harmless) but the… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts"… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
People make art for reasons other than money. People make art because they're compelled to, it's how they deal with the world… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Happiness is always possible - the only thing that really holds you back is your mind. You have probably already noticed that… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives… — John Green Copy Share Image
If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every… — Jennifer Nettles Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, when people say, 'Oh, she's an industry plant,' I'm like, 'No, I just have representation, like… — Clairo Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image