Create what you remember. Create what you repress. Create what you've never known & what you can't forget. — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
If you think of a solo artist, you normally know them by their name; you don't normally describe their kind of music.… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
“In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“Galbraith, tellingly, drew a line between ‘simple modes of enjoyment’ (he included here sport, food and houses as well as cars and… — Frank Trentmann Copy Share Image
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder.… — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
We are not all the same. If you care that much, if you're that invested in us as artists and the changes… — Ashleigh Murray Copy Share Image
I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It's the science and art of rapidly building out… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“… Your father, for instance, don’t you think he would have done three times as much work if it had not been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
I've studied martial arts since I was a kid. I can tell you that if you took me on, it wouldn't be… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat,… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
If you want to explore, go do it. If you want to try different types of art, do it. — Lights Copy Share Image
There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Thunder Road' knows who I am and what I feel, and that, in the end, is one of the consolations of art.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
