You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine.… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges.… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it.… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
“Our lives are more like a canvas on which we paint, than a script we need to learn – though the illusion… — Fiona Givens Copy Share Image
The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of… — Arshile Gorky 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
We're living in a world where anything can be ART.(Looking out of my window I see a full moon so I took… — Sam Marcellin Copy Share Image
It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded… — Henry Miller 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
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