Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to… — Robert Warren Copy Share Image
… an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts…a camp for semi-demented adults… Venice is like the… — Sara Davidson Copy Share Image
I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist,… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
When you go back to the days when I was studying how to paint, some of the things that excited me most… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I switched up so that I could work 12-hour shifts at the firm on the weekends so I could have days free… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I started off just trying to make a wish list for myself. I wanted to work with people I really admire myself.… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance.… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine." In order to even cut… — El-P Copy Share Image
If you connect with an artist because of what they make as a body of work, you feel like they're your friend.… — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
I think some of the most beneficial things being an artist has brought to me in film is just you're not afraid… — Common Copy Share Image
I find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork.… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
When you're younger, you don't realize you have limitations and that you are the one who has to take care of yourself.… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
“People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“The most twisted thing about being an artist comes when you understand you’re creating for one specific person. The painful part is… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
I struggle with arrangements. I take forever doing them. It gets to a point where I've been playing around with things on… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
Cartooning is an artistic commitment that requires the full attention and passion of the artist on every level; one should not get… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists… — Robyn Copy Share Image
I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people… — Golan Levin Copy Share Image
The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
Something that I've told all of my young artists is, there are going to be haters. You're going to read things that… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To the extent that someone goes out to criticize another woman about hair, makeup, silliness like that - unless you're talking about… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image