When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
People study martial arts for many reasons, sometimes all the wrong reasons. For example, I have had potential students come to my… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
I have been doing some writing on the side a little bit with artists that I'm really excited about. Kind of more… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
I always want to explore 'radical luxury' - I mean, I like radical more than I like luxury, and it's very nice… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves,… — Jennifer Damiano Copy Share Image
Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. It is the art of identifying… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Some Americans appear to believe that there would be no arts in America were it not for the National Endowment for the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality… — Laurence Gartel Copy Share Image
If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Passing from legality to subversion, the need of finding a minimum stimulus with a maximum effect appears—an effect that through its impact… — Luis Camnitzer Copy Share Image
Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I guess it would be nice to be remembered as a good friend to everyone and a dedicated artist to tattooing. I… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, when I was being interviewed on a television show, the host commented, "Art, you've had an unusual amount of… — Art Berg Copy Share Image
My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked,… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The first discipline is the realization that there is a discipline—-that all art begins and ends with discipline, that any art is… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“In the 20th century after WWII, Ralph Burke Tyree led the transformation and appreciation of the South Pacific’s serene beauty with his… — C.J. Cook Copy Share Image
I've been really lucky to spend some time around actors and artists I really admire. One thing I gathered from asking a… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
Of course, I, like the sponsoring government, would like to have as many people as possible visit Yokohama Triennale. This is because… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your… — Bliss Perry Copy Share Image
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the… — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
“True artists must be determined not to shy away from what they might find. She remembered a quote from Nietzche, Whatever you… — G.G. Vandagriff Copy Share Image
“Despite his inauspicious roots and lack of a recognizeable last name, this guy not only excelled at the art of war, but… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
I am very excited to be at a point where I can put out these big bodies of work that I'm proud… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
There are a lot of doors that still get shut, and there are a lot of walls to still breach. But, the… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
I always had to fight. I still do, believe it or not. When I had to go backstage. Even in Paris, I… — Roxanne Lowit Copy Share Image
I would like to continue to make art by being able to do what I love and have that make it possible… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
