“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if… — James Lee Schmidt Copy Share Image
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“Glamour is fueled by the dreams and imagination of mortals. Writers, artists, little boys pretending to be knights - the fey are… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“We like to think of creativity as a space for untrammelled imagination, free from all constraints. Yet while freedom, rule-breaking and inspiration… — Mark McGuinness Copy Share Image
“Why do we sacrifice so much energy to our art? Not in order to teach others but to learn with them what… — Jerzy Grotowski Copy Share Image
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty,… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I realized I couldn't get bookings as a performing artist on the road, as it were, I could not make a living… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
“Life eternal, this lady of thine hath a sore heart, and we cannot help her. Thou art help, O Mighty Love. Speak… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain... threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant,… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the line I also recognized that spiritual growth is “inner” creativity, as contrasted to creativity in the arts and the… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“All the same, I don't mean nothin' you wouldn't like yer mas to know about, see? That's straight, that is. It's Art,… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
I don't think I realised I was even producing my own music when I started, there's a whole generation of artists who… — Griff Copy Share Image
When I was doing 'Top of the Pops' in the 1990s there was a plethora of gorgeous young pop stars around, from… — Fearne Cotton Copy Share Image
You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me… — Jana Kramer Copy Share Image
I think the best advice I would give young artists is to always be working on your craft, because there are so… — Eric Benet Copy Share Image
“I finally figured out how hard the battle between your love for me and your love for art, your future, and your… — Shanora Williams Copy Share Image
There's a really fine line between artistic license and artistic licentiousness. And history is a lousy filmmaker. It doesn't give you all… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
“But by the late twentieth century, with more Americans going to college, making more money, and, thanks to more affordable airfares, traveling… — Kay S. Hymowitz Copy Share Image
What I really love about the Bay area sound is that it's very unique and that's something I want to strive for,… — Saweetie Copy Share Image
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Life may as properly be called an art as any other; and the great incidents in it are no more to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
