I don't want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it's not fun to be… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in… — Cara Santana Copy Share Image
Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, also. Sappho was… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us,… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various… — Leon Askin Copy Share Image
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
We use technology in service of the art, as a storytelling tool - and if we want to do something that's never… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“And yes—scholars might care about the innovative brushwork and use of light, the historical influence and the unique significance in Dutch art.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness… — Sridevi Copy Share Image
Once something gets noticed and people love you, most of the makers want to put you in the same bracket, feeling this… — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with Christian artists. We have a Christian… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
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For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“The Cabbage White The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“I cannot locate any aestetic dignity in [Stephen] King's writing: his public could not sustain it, nor could he...Art unfortunately is rarely… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear,… — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
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It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
As actors and actresses, we must rejoice in the possession of our physical faculties. We must experience joy in the use of… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
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O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
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