Good leaders, competent leaders must see it as primary task to create friendliness. This something within the scope of most people. Now… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If people want to watch music videos you can go to Youtube. But it would be great if there was still music… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
I think that there should be this thing for cover-ups on tattoos. I want to develop it. It's like a skin-toned transfer,… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the… — Dustin Yellin Copy Share Image
Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riatlo, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of… — Tintoretto Copy Share Image
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from… — Peter Wright Copy Share Image
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
“Leanoardo wrote that a painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
I tick so many boxes. Thats why I get a lot of gigs - because I can do the lectures, I can… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
The earth doesn’t care where death occurs. ...It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
To this day, I've never had an assistant. I really insist on doing everything myself because I value the role of the… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn't come into… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
For centuries, the arts and philanthropists have worked well together: look at the Tate family and the Courtaulds. If you've been fortunate… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I found that the artist market was expanding in comics. Marvel was going from something like eight books a month to somewhere… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at… — Luther E. Vann Copy Share Image
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game,… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform… — Saul Steinberg Copy Share Image
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
