When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the… — John Banville Copy Share Image
What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
“Happy the bard, (if that fair name belong To him that blends no fable with his song) Whose lines uniting, by an… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Development is the first phase. People write a script, you get concept art. You get to a point where you get a… — Gareth Edwards Copy Share Image
I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works… — David Archuleta Copy Share Image
Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“That's what dreams are really like, you know? They're not full of melting clocks or floating roses or people made out of… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
If I were not a black artist but I was still singing, playing guitar, and singing ballads that are spiritual and cerebral,… — India Arie Copy Share Image
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art.… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The Voice of Heaven is a still small voice. The voice of peace in the home is a quiet voice. There is… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Like James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Woolf ’s first novel is a self-conscious meditation on… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I've been told throughout my career that I have good instincts, and the idea of discovery and development in terms of a… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and… — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing… — Daya Copy Share Image
I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products.… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
There's this food that's evolved over thousands of years and people have made their own kind of thing, but it's not art-food,… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always been involved with radio, whether it was as an artist talking to radio about my own songs, or as… — MC Serch Copy Share Image
Are artists the canaries in the mine, warning of the coming explosion before anyone else? It's hard to look at the world… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The time is a thing; you don't have so much time. A good trick is to try and think about a way… — Thomas McDonell Copy Share Image
You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement,… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
