“Strauss’s, for instance, which begins in the heavens. The artist doesn’t ascend to glory, he appears in it, he already has it… — James Salter Copy Share Image
There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough,… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is nothing inspiring about this at all. Truthfully, not everything sad is art and sometimes sad shit is really all that… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts. — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“...I knew he had something that so many of my other students were lacking... desire. Not just the desire to create because… — Darian North Copy Share Image
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“To the extent that self-expression does broadcast and reinforce a person's character, it clarifies a link between art, eccentricity, and mental illness.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
Suddenly, this romantic agony was enriched by a less romantic one: I had to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, I… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as 'sissy bounce.' We don't separate it here in New Orleans at all. It's just bounce music. Just… — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
“What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will… — Van Cliburn Copy Share Image
By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves. — Kim Weston Copy Share Image
In art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
