I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it… — Melanie Brown Copy Share Image
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you… — Thomas Crum Copy Share Image
I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation, and there's this invariable, fascinating and rather sad situation of concentric… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Over the years I forced myself to be creative in how I covered the same scenes over and over. I started shooting… — Lynsey Addario Copy Share Image
I identify as being an independent artist. I think people often forget that Indie is actually short for independent. For me, the… — Mirah Copy Share Image
“In 1972, Bayber's work underwent another metamorphosis, yet refused to be defined by or adhere to any specific style. Elements of abstract… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I was the enemy of the major studio. I believed in one man - one film. I believed one man should make… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared… — Michael Tierra Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you do what you do, and in a way, you don't even control the core essence of what… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
“He had no illusion that this was bittersweet or somehow necessary to make art. It just burned. Anyone who felt this would… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
Every time I'm in the studio, I always think of my professor in undergrad. He was like, "There are so many artists… — Wardell Milan Copy Share Image
The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole… — Alex North Copy Share Image
“The tragic emotion, in fact, is a face looking two ways, towards terror and towards pity, both of which are phases of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“Expelled from the art institute for, among other reasons, drawing nudes as a single straight line, à la Cocteau, he was a… — Mark Lewisohn Copy Share Image
“And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Our older cousins would help us out. We'd get babysat a lot by some of mum's sisters. They took care of us.… — Benson Henderson Copy Share Image
“He came from plebeian roots and had failed to distinguish himself in any way, not in war, not in work, not in… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I don't think we should have sex in games. But I think we should have the right to have it. We should… — Brenda Romero Copy Share Image
For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for,… — Peter London Copy Share Image
I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
As a graphic artist, my job on a local paper was creating the advertising as well as working as a journalist on… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
Definitely female MMA fighters, I'm a big mixed martial arts fan, and watching women's MMA grow was definitely an inspiration. We just… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
The first two major label records I did what I wanted to do. It wasn't a problem until after I finished my… — Van Hunt Copy Share Image
... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes… — Edmund Blair Bolles Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).'… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom… — Lloyd Kaufman Copy Share Image
I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing.… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
Once I dedicated my time to mixed martial arts, I became careful about what I let into my mind. I made a… — Dominick Cruz Copy Share Image
I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
