When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books.… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
I had no special training at all; I am completely self-taught. I don’t fit the mold of a visual arts designer or… — Toru Iwatani Copy Share Image
I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact… — Max Pam Copy Share Image
Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
I have some advantages of viewing from the two lenses, the two perspectives. I think that a lot of visual artists who… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist, but I realized I was more affected by what I read than by what I… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you… — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life. Everything great that has come into… — Matt Sorum Copy Share Image
I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they… — Mike D Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in visual art and used to be much more into theater when I was younger, or more knowledgeable… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find… — Wayne McGregor Copy Share Image
“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“One way to look at a painting—and I use that word as shorthand for visual art in general—is to notice as you… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression.… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
When I was really young, I gravitated towards the visual arts first. I feel that's what comes most naturally to me. I've… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life:… — Lawrence Weschler Copy Share Image
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means used by the… — Jacques Bertin Copy Share Image
I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer… — Toru Iwatani Copy Share Image
I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
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