“There are things We live among ‘and to see them Is to know ourselves’.” — George Oppen Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures. — Jordi Molla Copy Share Image
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies. — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
“Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.” — M. Thomas Gammarino Copy Share Image
Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality. — Sergei Diaghilev Copy Share Image
My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in… — Choi Hong Hi Copy Share Image
I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing. — Virgil Abloh Copy Share Image
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
“get out of your mind that you can be a woman like me, all you’d succeed in being is what a woman… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
“Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. “There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Some individuals came right out and accused me of being a Neo-Orientalist (in a pejorative Edward Said sense of the term). So… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The true art is being able to take whatever the writer's done, and if it is a bit flimsy or it is… — Billy Howle Copy Share Image
Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
“To live a life of purpose is to focus on certain things that will outlive you.” — Ivan Fernandez Copy Share Image
Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one? — Nelly Copy Share Image
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I used to do martial arts when I was a kid but I stopped when I was pretty young. — Isa Briones Copy Share Image
