The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me,… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
“Words mean nothing Actions are everything Expect nothing Appreciate everything” — Patrick Cruz Copy Share Image
Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist.… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are… — David Galenson Copy Share Image
What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist. As soon as I said to myself, 'Oh… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It… — Vempati Chinna Satyam Copy Share Image
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' In D.C., people thank you for coming… — JR Copy Share Image
I have never seen a rap artist yet to come and say, 'I'm a gangsta'. What he says is 'Man I spit… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels… — William James Copy Share Image
People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot. — Frank Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a solo artist. I always wanted to be in a band. — Mike Campbell Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality… — Joseph Alsop Copy Share Image
The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“The site of his thinking and writing was a small office wedged in one corner of his shaggy house, on whose door… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image