“If the halls of the Hermitage should suddenly go mad, if the paintings of all schools and masters should suddenly break loose… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“And don’t forget that it is the press, the pulpit, and the university that mould public opinion, set the thought-pace of the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets… — David Milne Copy Share Image
You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Your right. We do spend a lot of time worrying about our looks, instead of focusing on what's inside. - Raven The… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
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Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the… — Jeremy Aldana Copy Share Image
Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters,… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
In an industry that's uncertain and when you're in a lot of situations that are anxiety-causing, to have someone there who has… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed… — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself.… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
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I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
I think that watching artists, soulful artists, they get into it. It's always the way I perform, so when I'm on stage… — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
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I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the… — Bruce Hutchison Copy Share Image
“James believed in the power of art, not because he thought it would change the world or because he imagined it could… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I also got encouragement from my teachers at primary school but one person in particular who had a significant impact on my… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I don't like being under someone elses thumb. I'm very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
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In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
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As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world.… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
“The concern is that the images to be devised won't be sufficiently upsetting: not concrete, not detailed enough. Pity can entail a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using… — Galina Vishnevskaya Copy Share Image
Patronage is a very old phenomenon that's occurred in people and in society for thousands of years. It stems from an emotional… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting,… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was… — Cynthia Lennon Copy Share Image
All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before,… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
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