Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off… — William Attwood Copy Share Image
When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Since I started making art, I've always had some kind of project that was really about and for other people, because I… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other… — Elrey Borge Jeppesen Copy Share Image
Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this… — Keri Hulme Copy Share Image
Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude.… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
But Stacie Orrico was my childhood hero. I was about 12 when I found her music. She is a contemporary Christian artist,… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy,… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm a real big Marilyn Manson fan. I get a lot of my styles from him. Not even musically - living-wise, too.… — Lil Uzi Vert Copy Share Image
Being hippy, just doesn't describe this. Boredom does actually, and my love for sketching. This is what makes me happy, I don't… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
If I can reach the guy in Alabama that hunts, and he hears that song, and he sees me - like, he's… — Luke Combs Copy Share Image
You should form your own opinions, and I think that's why social media is good because it's an alternative source of information… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them,… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago to be honest when I'm talking to other artists. Up-and-coming artists used to come and say… — Common Copy Share Image
Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. You got a handful of great guys… — Nas Copy Share Image
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
An artwork is an arrangement of things. The ideal show for me would be if everything touched, literally touched, so that everything… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I'd have to say that the things that mean the most to me are the examples of original comic art that I'm… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“The most important factor of art is the love of it; the rest will come. If you enjoy your craft, the end… — Elizabeth Isaacs Copy Share Image
And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also,… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“The fact remains that he was less a pope than a Renaissance prince. Homosexual like his predecessor, he was a cultivated and… — John Julius Norwich Copy Share Image
The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
