“...flow - a state that some artists experience in their creative moments and that many other people achieve when enthralled by a… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Just as artists who draw landscapes get down in the valley to study the mountains and go up to the mountains to… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer… — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
You know, the art films would usually be more, I mean the exploitation movies would usually be more lurid, but not that… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting… — Dave Malloy Copy Share Image
No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I do believe that everyone is an artist...however, how we potray our images, i.e. charactors, is how people will see us. Be… — Thabang Tshabalala Copy Share Image
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“He’d look his fill of her creamy breasts every opportunity he got. To ignore their perfection would just be rude. Like staring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I… — Georges Vantongerloo Copy Share Image
I am pretty bad at doing my makeup myself, so these days, I am learning from a makeup artist. I treat my… — Nayeon Copy Share Image
The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? When young and old, and strong and weak, Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow, Thy sweet… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“It is possible for music to be labeled "Christian" and be terrible music. It could lack creativity and inspiration. The lyrics could… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“I succeeded as a cartoonist with negligible art talent, some basic writing skills, an ordinary sense of humor and a bit of… — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Every artist is a walking business. Your marketing tools are your headshots and your reel. That's what people see that's what your… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a… — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
“It is the right of art to consider an impression valid simply as an impression and to accept it as something entire… — Leo Baeck Copy Share Image
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
“I can't remember the name of the piece, or the artist. Maybe it wasn't even an artwork. Why must I automatically assume… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art". - Herbert Marcuse "Play is… — Manfred Eigen Copy Share Image
In my career spanning over two decades, I've never felt that comedy is a department everybody can excel in because it's an… — M. S. Narayana Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
My first professional job was with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I started out in an educational touring play and eventually starred on their… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
Being an artist is like being an athlete. You have to be in there every day, keeping in shape. You have to… — Lawrence Jordan Copy Share Image
The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
I'm just gonna keep growing as an artist, and I'm excited to work with different people and learn from all these other… — Banks Copy Share Image