I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens to all… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I have no artistic training - as you might have guessed from all the stick figures! - and there are a few… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him -… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“While it is true that these arts employ what are, to us, highly difficult technical disciplines, it is always recognized that they… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
That period, doing 'Angels in America' in '94 and then filming with 'Basquiat' in '95, those were gateway years for me as… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
There is a good deal of art that in some traditions of conceptual work are anti-affect, in fact a very large chunk… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
Art pulls a community together... Art makes you feel differently. That's what artists are doing all the time, shifting and changing the… — Lister Sinclair Copy Share Image
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The main purpose of my work is to appear in the mass media. It's not so much that I want my pictures… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't watch cinema. They can't afford movie tickets, they can't go to theatres to watch cinema, they are… — Koena Mitra Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages I try to constantly get across… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
“The superellipse — also common in Hermann Zapf’s lettering for book covers — can feel dated, perhaps because it brings to mind… — Stephen Coles Copy Share Image
“These artists pay little attention to an encircling present that bears no direct relation to the world of work in which they… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
It's hard to come across someone who can look past an artist who is larger and just see them for the talent… — Kelly Price Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things… — Leo Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
All the things that served me as a musician serve me as a cook. Being an artist is about communicating something deep… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
If you can see a thing you don't have anymore it's very heartbreaking. To hold onto things longer than we actually can… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
“Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I really wanted to get into this art school about two years before I started working at the Grille. I applied and… — Alice J. Wisler Copy Share Image
My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
Both my parents and sister are visual artists. That skipped me over completely. I can't draw a straight line. I've found other… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
Having kids is a full-time job. And I don't know any woman who isn't constantly fighting between the exquisite selfishness required to… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think that the artists who don't get involved in preaching messages probably are happier - but you see, I have to… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people… — Michael Winslow Copy Share Image
The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
![“[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If…” quote by William Monahan](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c3a/william-monahan-3226_ambitious_eugene-o-neill-made-a-living-certainly-a_1474343.jpg)
