The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love… — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
“There is a great promise for our cultural growth, but this promise is achieved only when our artists recognize that all great… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals.… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
If I'm O.K., I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed on myself. Not physical ones, but those restrictive tabs on my inner… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the… — Norbert Lynton Copy Share Image
Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the… — David Elliott Copy Share Image
I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm not a good enough artist that people just think of me. Maybe in the future, I'll bloom into something that… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
“Franz Schulze’s book “Fantastic Images” had a lot of impact on me. Mark Pascale turned me on to that book when I… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
“D.D.R.C.T. which stands for "Dreams Do Really Come True". Yes, I'm a firm believer about that. I can even stand in a… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
Drag artists are more men than real men. You need a lot of courage, personality, and guts to go out there. Even… — BeBe Zahara Benet Copy Share Image
“It quite often makes me feel sad that painting’s like a bad mistress one might have, who’s always spending, spending and it’s… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is.… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly,… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
"The Moderately Talented..." is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
I want to prove to people who sit on a couch and don't do anything but criticize other people that, if you're… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown,… — Phil Collen Copy Share Image
“I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go!… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world… — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art… — Casey Neistat Copy Share Image
Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each… — Al Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
I'm not really a political performer/comedian/performance artist or whatever you want to call it. But I feel like maybe I'm political just… — Bridget Everett Copy Share Image
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Joseph Gotto, yeah. Just all-around one of the more inspiring artists - not because of any sort of specific content direction, but… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Sharon Garlough Brown may be a novelist, but she’s also a portrait artist, painting with tender detail the souls of four women… — Sharon Garlough Brown Copy Share Image
The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self.… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
Dancehall music is perceived as party music, which it is because of the rhythm, but there are messages that do come through… — Sean Paul Copy Share Image
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