So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don't know how to market your music, you get involved… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
We live in a world where art is always looked upon as the perfect medium. We live in a society where we… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Artists often have mental health issues. And their lifestyles are unstable because of all the travelling and the media commentary on their… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
There are masses of people who need affordable housing in New York. I think that, politically, it is very difficult to give… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the… — Joseph Raffael Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art. From the first imitative babble of a child… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to bring Americans into some experiences they ordinarily would not consider. Experiences in Latin America, people in Latin America, I… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or… — Mae Martin Copy Share Image
“The transposition of two Letters by five placeings will be sufficient for 32 Differences [and] by this Art a way is opened,… — George B. Dyson Copy Share Image
“One real difference between art and craft: with craft, perfection is possible. In that sense the Western definition of craft closely matches… — David Bayles and Ted Orland Copy Share Image
I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
“The mysterious quality of artworks is a signal of the mysterious quality of objects in general. Beauty is a secret that we… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of… — Bohuslav Martinu Copy Share Image
I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids,… — Chingy Copy Share Image
I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. It’s a term that does not relate to modern… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
I'm constantly learning as a songwriter, so naturally that makes you grow as an artist. But I also think the more time… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind… — David Rasche Copy Share Image
What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image