I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The life of an artist is always reproving what you can do, and I feel like there is still so much more… — Lynn Whitfield Copy Share Image
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature,… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself.… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
I thought there was a way of marrying what I wanted to do with filmmaking with pop videos, which I found out… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Pam was a struggling artist who made everyone's life difficult. She only wore black and after becoming acquainted with her I couldn't… — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
If you’re convinced as an artist of what you’re doing the only move is to, no matter what people say or what… — Zedd Copy Share Image
An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
“Whether you dance, draw, make music, shoot field goals, build houses, tune engines, or sit around all day watching television, you are… — Scott Edmund Miller Copy Share Image
“do they not tell us more of the real spirit of the Italian Renaissance, of the dream of Savonarola and of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I've already spent a lot of my life doing what makes me go. There's a life out there while I'm still young,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Back before I entered primary school, I liked to draw, even though I was a brat. I especially liked animals and vehicles,… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely… — Wu Guanzhong Copy Share Image
Instincts are a really important guide for any artist, but particularly filmmakers because it takes a lot to stay true to your… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which… — Wumen Huikai Copy Share Image
“How can we ultimately fail to twig that the apparent impiety of contemporary art is only ever the inverted image of sacred… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people that are making art are not famous! Most people that are making art do have day jobs. And it takes… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
