The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I want everything to build and create a massive artwork composed of different songs, colors, physical art and visuals. — Benee Copy Share Image
Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I actually started off - believe it or not - doing drag. I travelled the world because I was a completely off-the-wall… — Kristian Nairn Copy Share Image
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
“Future civilizations - better civilizations than this one - are going to judge all men by the extent to which they've been… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost… — Jeff Perry Copy Share Image
“It follows from Schopenhauer’s analysis that evert genuine work of art must have its origin in direct perception; that is to say… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial… — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly,… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Over the years with me maturing as an artist and as a person, I really learned to keep things in perspective. — Omarion Copy Share Image
“A printer can do the same thing and much more. He can preserve the Law, but he can also preserve the words… — Marek Halter Copy Share Image
“In a poem, melody, or picture, we are forced with a mystery: quality in the metaphysical sense of the word. How could… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I have learned to master the art of being different and to prove that it has nothing to do with the color… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't know everybody's political opinions, but I think the majority of people in the arts are pretty leftist, and we're disappointed… — Paul Sparks Copy Share Image
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.” — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
What I became a comedian for was to get my art out. To get some of these feelings and things I had… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
Drake is one of my favorite artists, so it would definitely be a honor to make a track with him. — Le'Veon Bell Copy Share Image