Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Storyboards are kind of inflexible, once you finish making them you have to stick to them. Since animation takes such a long… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
If the film isn't in some way going to study behavior then I'm not interested, but the reason why I'm not interested… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
“We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his work "junk", simply because we differ with… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
As artists, we'd all love to not be commercial - to not sell out to the full extent that we are able.… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually… — Joe Johnston Copy Share Image
Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Long ago I used to mutter (as you probably do), "Very interesting," and cast a desperate glance around for the punch-bowl. This… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, talent isn't worth shit. There are tons of talentless people out there making zillions of dollars. And unfortunately, an equal… — Tiffanie DeBartolo, How To Kill A Rock Star Copy Share Image
Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The thing about writing or making art is that I'm not thinking about that stuff while I'm doing it. Like the driver's… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“We weren’t idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“I once had a drinking contest with an artist on his yacht... It amused him as I took shot after shot, and… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if… — Amy Ryan Copy Share Image
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
“Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I know the devil is working against me. I already know my mission and what I'm really here to do. People may… — Cyhi the Prynce Copy Share Image
Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to… — JR Copy Share Image
Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out… — Valerie Azlynn Copy Share Image
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things… — Melanie Laurent Copy Share Image
“A pear, an apple, and a banana in a basket on a table isn’t art, no matter how skillfully painted. But it… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
