To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We… — Christo Copy Share Image
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“...TV and popular film and most kinds of 'low' art-- which just means art whose primary aim is to make money-- is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially… — David Selby Copy Share Image
The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply,… — Winsor McCay Copy Share Image
Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies,… — Pauli Murray Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep… — Margaret Caroline Anderson Copy Share Image
I would begin by collecting lithographs and etchings. It's a way of coming in and benefiting from real quality art. Even younger… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized,… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Art is about the context in which it is made as much as the object itself; objects take on different meanings in… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
When I'm drawing a bottle or a town or a market, I transport myself there. So I start drawing everything that I'm… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a… — Daniel Cormier Copy Share Image
If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings… — Joan Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think festivals are way more easygoing than back-to-back tours are. 'Cause for me, when you get to go to a festival,… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
For April Fools Day, someone played a really cruel joke on me. They stole ALL my mirrors and I had to go… — James Franco Copy Share Image
When the news is slow, or when there's just so many other responsibilities bearing down on me that I don't have the… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you… — Jaime King Copy Share Image
“As if Jari’s openness had triggered something in Aamir, the older boy also began to reminisce. “My grandfather used to paint. He… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found...… — Artemisia Gentileschi Copy Share Image
“Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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