What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
There was an era when people would turn on their radio and hear a radio drama. Now, you could be as scared… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
“Every run is a work of art, a drawing on each day's canvas. Some runs are shouts and some runs are whispers.… — Dagny Scott Barrios Copy Share Image
Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I always had something to think about or draw from, which as an actor is a gift. The beautiful thing about film… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“When singers, actors or artists touch on sorrow, they are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For me, a diva is like the great opera singer, the great film star - out of reach, in their own world,… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Let’s listen again to Dencombe: 'Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task.' I love the fact that he… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“Mitchell Maxwell’s Maxims • You have to create your own professional path. There’s no longer a roadmap for an artistic career. •… — Mitchell Maxwell Copy Share Image
Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest,… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
“They were not permitted to so much as knock upon the door to the room in which he thought and wrote about… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“As Schell had taught me, "a con starts when there is something you want and you are blocked from attaining it by… — Jeffrey Ford Copy Share Image
“Thus, since time immemorial, it has been customary to accept the criticism of art from a man who may or may not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also… — Matthew Brannon Copy Share Image
For me narcissism is not about money. For me, narcissism is something so romantic and something so human. Everybody is a narcissist.… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to… — Willow Shields Copy Share Image
Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave… — Kesh Copy Share Image
A real good artist learns to be a better person through all the changes they've been through. They keep their loving and… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
Not everyone would choose to pay the costly price of being a great artist. To many, the riches of life are quite… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
