Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately life has a way of sidetracking one’s greatest ambitions. Painters, would-be artists, end up whitewashing walls. Sculptors are forced to design… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from his work? What do they expect? What is there… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our… — John A. Keel Copy Share Image
I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort… — Barbara Rosenblat Copy Share Image
“As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Art school?” He gave me a pointed look. “Charlotte, getting a master’s degree in art is like telling the universe that you… — Whitney G Copy Share Image
The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke… — Patricia Lee Gauch Copy Share Image
The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and… — Barbara Chase-Riboud Copy Share Image
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what’s usually in the… — Robert Mangold Copy Share Image
Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Art provides us with clues about how to live our lives more fully...about how creating, collecting, and even just appreciating art can… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Merely to see... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through… — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
I feel irrational so confrontational to tell the truth I am getting away with murder it isn't possible to never tell the… — Papa Roach Copy Share Image
I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there.… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists that return to the same subject. Whether it's the natural subject, or the focus or the… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
