I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I think the artist has an ability to draw pictures for people to where they can process these messages that otherwise they… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and… — Mako Copy Share Image
Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think for a lot of artists, if you're lucky enough to have a kind of career, especially toward the end, you… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
The people I look up to the most - politicians, actors, artists - are the people who manage to do a high-powered… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I like Ludacris; I think that he's a complete artist. I think that he makes great records; I think that he is… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
“Artists are makers, not just mouthers of slippery discourse. Language, the poets' medium, should not be privileged over the protean materials of… — Camile Pagli Copy Share Image
I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's…more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they're still musicians,… — Mitski Copy Share Image
I think my dream would have been to be a solo artist. But it didn't work out like that, and I also… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I don't think we have to suffer personally to make great art. If you're prepared and organized, and you know what you're… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
“Henri the painter was not French and his name was not Henri. Also he was not really a painter. Henri has so… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“Larry said that Michelangelo was a poof, so I wondered why he’d sculpted a guy with a really tiny cock. But I… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand or fearful clinging to the past on the other. It… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people:… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
“As Giotto’s fame grew, the pope sent a representative to Tuscany to learn more about the artist and his work. When asked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
“...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There's lots of R&B blogs that I like going on and it basically just names new music that isn't out and won't… — Cher Lloyd Copy Share Image
Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
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