The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own. — Winslow Homer Copy Share Image
We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I'm friends with [exes] and they hear the songs. I can honestly say I don't have any exes I hate. They're artists… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives. — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy. — Kristen Wiig Copy Share Image
Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes… We’re all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Most of my good friends have fights with me. Those guys know that I was in martial arts for 12 years fighting… — Charlie Murphy Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to be healthy because I want to survive longer as an artist. I want to go longer, and in… — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from… — John Hirsch Copy Share Image
It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music… — Andre Rieu Copy Share Image
I just sit here and tell the story as though I can't help it. There's always something in the day that reminds… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“I laugh at the way some people think graffiti is all selfish tagging and vandalism. Thoughtful street art is like good fiction… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“For Schwartz this formed the paradox at the heart of baseball, or football, or any other sport. You loved it because you… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I don't think the art market is for everybody. Yeah, of course we have a global gallery. But we're like the one-tenth… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
“At the age of twenty, his artistic dreams frustrated, Hitler was a tramp: park benches, soup queues. Given just a little more… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Instinct is the elusive magic that happens when art collides with hard-won craft.” — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported. — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I'm an artist because of how I do things, not because I'm trying to be one. — The-Dream Copy Share Image
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. — John Rothenstein Copy Share Image
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
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