Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I may be weird, but creative wise I have the knowledge to know and believe in my heart that my weirdness makes… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
“Art is its own thing, and so is craft — and creativity is common to both, in the same way as its… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is,… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
Dave Matthews, Tim McGraw, U2, The Rolling Stones - there are a lot of artists selling out stadiums around the world that… — Michael Rapino Copy Share Image
Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
“If other people thought art was important, then it would be required to graduate. But no, I don’t have to take art.… — Laura Ruby Copy Share Image
The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Most of arts what comes from the States to Europe has something to do with entertainment. I can't imagine artists in the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
The rules changed for art around 1989. We were all loosed upon the canon to clip and paste and borrow and update.… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create,… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality… — Joseph Alsop Copy Share Image
I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams… — Lisa Simeone Copy Share Image
My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know,… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“Art", "Bop" and "rock and roll" and whatever is all just a joke and a mistake, just a hunka foolishness so stop… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Living out my dreams of making a living in the arts and sharing the gift of laughter is made that much sweeter… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
It has been a marvellous experience and a great gift collaborating with Madonna. Now that I have had the chance to see… — Alessandro Michele Copy Share Image
“What I have just described is the art of gratitude. Every time that we say “thank you” we are not only acknowledging… — Celso Cukierkorn Copy Share Image
The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're… — El-P Copy Share Image
Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
“We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed… — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
In an industry that's uncertain and when you're in a lot of situations that are anxiety-causing, to have someone there who has… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
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