A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him -… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I have no artistic training - as you might have guessed from all the stick figures! - and there are a few… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
Art pulls a community together... Art makes you feel differently. That's what artists are doing all the time, shifting and changing the… — Lister Sinclair Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
That period, doing 'Angels in America' in '94 and then filming with 'Basquiat' in '95, those were gateway years for me as… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
There is a good deal of art that in some traditions of conceptual work are anti-affect, in fact a very large chunk… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
“While it is true that these arts employ what are, to us, highly difficult technical disciplines, it is always recognized that they… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The main purpose of my work is to appear in the mass media. It's not so much that I want my pictures… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't watch cinema. They can't afford movie tickets, they can't go to theatres to watch cinema, they are… — Koena Mitra Copy Share Image
I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his… — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks Copy Share Image
As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty,… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You are Hannah, a lover of life, a strength to those who shared in your friendships. You are a dream, a creator… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Guillermo del Toro. He's in his pure artist's stroke. He's just hitting it out of the park. I would go anywhere to… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on… — Kenneth Roberts Copy Share Image
And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they… — Lawrence Halprin Copy Share Image
It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending… — Rodney Jerkins Copy Share Image
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I contend that if it wasn't for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn't have happened. He was an… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you… — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
“Writing, as most art, is considered to be essentially superfluous. Who is an artist before a surgeon? Or a scientist? But the… — Rainer J. Hanshe Copy Share Image
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
Every artist, to me, should know why they're doing what they're doing. You shouldn't create simply because it sounds good to you.… — Jlin Copy Share Image
I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music… — Ted Shawn Copy Share Image
For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
![“[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If…” quote by William Monahan](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c3a/william-monahan-3226_ambitious_eugene-o-neill-made-a-living-certainly-a_1474343.jpg)
