I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
For a bit I was going mad trying to do martial arts twice a week and go to the gym and do… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
“Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
“If you are inherently a good guy, which I think I am, you instinctively want to help people even before you know… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition… — Erin Willett Copy Share Image
In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology...… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I think we give too much importance to artists talking about the art and the film and the books and the plays… — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
Maybe the bar is low, but most of the strips that are 50, 60, 70 years old that are on their second… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
“As you wish. But I felt several personal items here while I was a guest at the house party, so if you… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question,… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who… — Leonard Bacon Copy Share Image
Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it.… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper,… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
What I appreciate about Sleater-Kinney is that we did six records, and they all felt different. It was a band that was… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I've worked with a hundred of the biggest artists in the world, from Madonna to Mariah Carey, and he [Michael Jackson] is… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts,… — Jessica Jackley Copy Share Image
When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
You ask me, you sound weak, you not a threat . Like Artest I don't stand too far from the best .… — Vado Copy Share Image
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . .… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master;… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image