All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
“My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes [...] The fear was practically… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an… — Haruki Mukarami Copy Share Image
Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would… — Hilma af Klint Copy Share Image
The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to… — C. R. Strahan Copy Share Image
“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I… — John Champlin Gardner Jr Copy Share Image
It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
Long John I think went off the air in about '79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That's why I think… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a… — Chet Baker Copy Share Image
“Morala constituie pentru arta o primejdie pe care multi o subestimeaza, arta se apropie mai mult de natura, prin cruzimea ei infantila,… — Marin Preda Copy Share Image
I worked really hard to develop me as an artist and as a musician. I have so many different influences and play… — Elle King Copy Share Image
“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town… — Donovan Copy Share Image
Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, 'What do you believe? What do you think? What… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In magic I believe I can control certain elements of my environment, I believe I can control certain aspects of my endocrine… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
“Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I understand that everyone around the world has the global economy crisis and the budgets on education are being cut and the… — Sean Mackin Copy Share Image
“On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
You can play yourself and make a very good career out of it. Do the same type of role, the daring, good-looking,… — Rocky Carroll Copy Share Image
“I didn't understand for a long time, but what attracted me to MtAoFC [Mastering the Art of French Cooking] was the deeply… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
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