I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you - it's easier to know if… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The swimsuit and jeans look is my favorite. It was a big part of my introduction to the world as an artist.… — Ciara Copy Share Image
“For a pregnant woman to give birth, she's gotta feel the pain of pulling a watermelon out of her nostril. For an… — Lucifer Copy Share Image
I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“I missed him like madness. I missed him so I lay in bed every night and cried for an hour. I missed… — Annabel Joseph Copy Share Image
People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the… — Edward Elgar Copy Share Image
It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk.… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are,… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts;… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for… — Nas Copy Share Image
When you're a young actor, you don't get very glammed up. Except, I remember the first time I had a photo shoot… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the… — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“You want car?' Rena said. 'Artist college? You think I don't know? How you think you pay? So this dress. Pretty dress.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Music and fashion and art - they were the things we were willing to die for. 'Is my hair all right? Have… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The extraordinary thing about comic books and graphic novels is that they cannot exist without the art. If my words disappeared tomorrow,… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
Before I made my first film, 'River of Grass,' I worked on a lot of small 8mm films in art school in… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
“The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“I thought to myself with what means, with what deceptions, with how many varied arts, with what industry a man sharpens his… — Francesco Vettori friend of Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
There are many artists I would like to have the honour to cooperate with. To accompany Barbara Streisand or Paul McCartney or… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
“When I was fourteen, I had a massive poster on my wall of a giant pop-art mouth advertising a Swiss exhibition of… — Stewart Lee Copy Share Image
Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image