The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Color is something that cannot be defined by era, style or artistic trends. Thus it always has the power to speak in… — JOH & Company Copy Share Image
When you're writing a 25-minute episode that can be anything, sometimes you just start with a character, and you let them walk… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
There are a lot of classic Goapele tracks that are obviously me. And I'm also just trying to keep evolving and grow… — Goapele Copy Share Image
Hollywood seduces a person who's used to making theater, art, and having success on their own terms and then tries to squish… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, language, everything that is distinctly of Man. The… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The wonderful news is that when a person with my lack of art background can be successful, then anyone can. I'm not… — Jack White Copy Share Image
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so.… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In the arts, people are always waiting for someone or some movement to "fulfill her/its/his promise." Then, half-a-dozen or a dozen years… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
“Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you… — Hugh MacLeod Copy Share Image
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, therevolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but… — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at… — Duff Goldman Copy Share Image
Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art..… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another,… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one… — Kenneth Coutts-Smith Copy Share Image
As a child I'd sit at dinner parties with artists, authors and musicians, some of the best people in their fields. I… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
In a lot of cases, you think that the art director and the production designer designed and built this amazing set, when… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful… — Clarice Cliff Copy Share Image
My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may… — Joakim Noah Copy Share Image
I remember in 'The Wizard of Oz' in middle school, I was the Tin Man. There was this fly on stage, and… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Education is presumed to nurture an appreciation of diversity: the more schooling, the greater the respect for works of literature and art,… — Bill Bishop Copy Share Image
“Ancient person, for whom I All the flattering youth defy, Long be it ere thou grow old, Aching, shaking, crazy, cold; But… — John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Copy Share Image
Artists such as Lorna Simpson, Zoe Leonard, Byron Kim and Stephen Andrews and I are around the same age, and I know… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art… — Thornton Willis Copy Share Image
