“Hunger Howls You will always feel hungry if you keep starving yourself to feed others The vacant call from your belly is… — Christine Evangelou Copy Share Image
The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 31 remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
“Pornography won’t be enough. Because it never is. Sooner or later, all niggers want to touch the real thing. All dogs want… — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Everything an artist does is scary, but we do it anyway. If someone tries to steer you off-course, push them outta the… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
“I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old.… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
When I wrote for myself before as an artist, I probably wrote about 15, 20 songs a year. I thought that was… — LP Copy Share Image
Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
Music and fashion go hand in hand. I think music inspires all types of arts; it inspires life, emotion, mood, and all… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“In times when evil comes because men misunderstand and hate one another, it is the mission of the artist to praise sweetness,… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
“Art value always goes up once the artist’s associated with fucked-up things such as cutting off his own ear like Van Gogh,… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The right idea, one that is in productive sync with one’s talents, can unlock a whole worldview. If that idea is also… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“If we will not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work, the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
Life and love inspire me. I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being. I… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“I believe in making my potential models comfortable,’ he explained when she shot a surprised look at him. ‘I’m considerate, unlike some… — Christine Stovell Copy Share Image
Don't ever believe someone that tells you "you're the next big thing". You're not. I'm not. Those people will come and go.… — Matthew Mayfield Copy Share Image
I'd become very involved in the production, so the albums were taking longer. So it was never a deliberate decision not to… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“Aunts are to be a pattern and example to all aunts; to be a delight to boys (and girls) and a comfort… — Dave Isay Copy Share Image
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The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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