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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“what was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Basically, I thought for a very long time that making music and art projects, that that was just something that I did,… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
A lot of people take shortcuts in terms of using athleticism and defensive tactics to try and have the right game plan… — Josh Barnett Copy Share Image
I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my… — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
“She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
When Allen Ginsberg was still alive, he was was an artist, but he was very local. He was just another wing-nut in… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The reason I love blogs so much right now is that I am seeing more critical voices appear, and that's kind of… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Anything can be art: painting stairs, raising a child, or organising a trip to the end of the world. It's the way… — Mykyta Isagulov Copy Share Image
Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The trick to not being discovered until it is too late is to become part of the expected surroundings. Stealth is more… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
