There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
I'm constantly learning as a songwriter, so naturally that makes you grow as an artist. But I also think the more time… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. It’s a term that does not relate to modern… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
If somebody's getting depressed in life, I would say, 'Look at me'. I've got here believing in me. Sometimes, things do not… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Before I think we was emcees, we was more or less narrators too. Because if you look at the early '80s hip… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
It's really amazing that I was discovered and that I've been given these great opportunities to travel the world and work with… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I know I am a human being. I can give myself to one year for a project. That is why I say… — Tehching Hsieh Copy Share Image
If the global art market was a person, it would be a cunning, sneaky, greedy, materialistic person. A person with a driving,… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don't know how to market your music, you get involved… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
Artists often have mental health issues. And their lifestyles are unstable because of all the travelling and the media commentary on their… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
We live in a world where art is always looked upon as the perfect medium. We live in a society where we… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
There are masses of people who need affordable housing in New York. I think that, politically, it is very difficult to give… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the… — Joseph Raffael Copy Share Image
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art. From the first imitative babble of a child… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
There's something exciting and incredibly liberating for an artist to finish something Friday night and the world hears it Friday night instead… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it,… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
Work is rich. It can be looked at psychologically or philosophically or personally. The interpretive nature of work is different than the… — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else,… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
