What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair? — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'd hate to compare art to life but I think a movie is an entity of its own, and when it's done,… — RZA Copy Share Image
“Except Caitlyn. High school dating, drill team, school spirit—it all seemed silly to her. Why did it feel like high school was… — Lisa Cach Copy Share Image
There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead. — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that… — Miyavi Copy Share Image
An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He’s not making any decisions, he’s not weighing one idea against another. He’s accepting… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply,… — Winsor McCay Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so… — Gia Coppola Copy Share Image
I may not be good at drawing but this is how I really draw what do yall think? — Brianna Ramos Copy Share Image
I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important.… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
When you make movies, you've picked the most expensive art form, and somebody has to pay for it. You kind of owe… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by — Blaine Hogan Copy Share Image
In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water;… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor. — Robert Edmond Jones Copy Share Image
“A writer needs a partner who can act as fuel to his artistic mind, yet has the great ability to sober him… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less. — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Copy Share Image
Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is the music of the youth. It sort of has the same purpose as what we do, at least lyrically, because… — Amadou Bagayoko Copy Share Image
Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
My goal is to become the best person I can, and in the process of doing so, I believe, I can help… — Dominick Cruz Copy Share Image
I don't understand the whole concept of doubles. They used to do that in the early sound films in Hollywood, but I… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
