“In the bottom right-hand corner was a decent-sized color photo of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Trudeau posing with their new acquisition. Brianna,… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
I think sometimes, especially in country music, the fans feel so close to an artist that they think they have a right… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Even the girl he'd danced with had thought it was some marvelous trick. She had been enveloped in real, bright fire and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think more and more, if you live in the current world - and live internationally - it's all a mix of… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake.… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and… — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked,… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people's marginalization from what the art subculture… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was… — Blue Balliett Copy Share Image
I've said it before: just being a pretty face ain't going to get you that far. It has to be about whatever… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“Will his work survive? Alas, I worry it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I… — Gerardo Suter Copy Share Image
There are people working in arts organizations who feel that in recent years there has been a sacrifice of quality and excellence… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
“The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
