We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two,… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
I never stopped being a mother, and I never stopped being an artist. Which is probably why my kids are so creative.… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
“Writing is one of the loneliest of the arts; unlike the actor we have no immediate audience and must wait many long… — Bryan Forbes Copy Share Image
“He had only just made the Elysian deadline; hanging onto the typescript until the last moment in case there was something still… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada,… — Flume Copy Share Image
So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
“It’s The Raft of the Medusa by Géricault. There’s a whole story behind that painting. It’s based on a true story about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Unless you know the mountains and the forests, the defiles and impasses, the lay of the marshes and swamps, you cannot maneuver… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context - all of those things make you unique, and you… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
It's really hard to write about art in general. But it's exceptionally hard to fictionalize art and make work that isn't a… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
As for the cartoonists 'Oily' prints, they are just artists I admire. I am lucky to be friends with most of them… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
Oh, Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations. Thou art Everywhere, but I worship thee here: Thou art… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
“Tarkovsky was right. The responsibility of the artist is to stir people’s hearts and minds toward loving others: to find the light… — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most… — Rene Huyghe Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 20, "Bezalel") "Worship is an art, using the sensory to bring us into an awareness of and attentiveness to the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
“Need we go into details about what I said to Judy? I am no poet, and I suppose what I said was… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of… — Judith Malina Copy Share Image
It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the… — Eve Langley Copy Share Image
“. . . It comes down to that urge to fascism to know what’s best for people, to know that some people… — Griel Marcus Copy Share Image
“Heade’s calm is unsteady, storm-stirred; we respond in our era to its hint of the nervous and the fearful. His weather is… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The old model of the industry was founded largely upon business folk trying to make money off artists. At EMP, we let… — David Ellefson Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“In one of its aspects, art is a technique for focusing attention, for teaching skills of attention. The history of the arts… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“New York is the concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertainment and finance, bringing to a single compact… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
You'd think that it was really hard for me to turn into North Carolina prostitute, but I didn't think of her like… — Ana Mulvoy-Ten Copy Share Image
“But you will tell me this is an inartistic age, and we are an inartistic people, and the artist suffers much in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind… — William James Copy Share Image
