People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art,… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“The Egyptian art of the earliest dynasties bears again a remarkable resemblance to that of early Babylonia. It is not till the… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
You see an artist, a creative person, can accept criticism or can live with the criticism much more easily than with being… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
I don't think about myself having any form or style. Although it does tend to be rather realistic; not too stylised at… — Marko Djurdjevic Copy Share Image
“Yet each, in itself—this was the uncanny, the anti-organic, the life-denying character of them all—each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
What you realize is it's not about financial success as an artist. A lot of actors and actresses, producers, writers, and the… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Networks like Adult Swim allow artists to be artists and allow their vision to come through without a lot of tinkering. I… — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
“As I felt myself finally succumbing to sleep, the image of the woman from the art show popped into my head. She’d… — Meka James Copy Share Image
My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female… — Erin Andrews Copy Share Image
“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art: It arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. Philosophy is a hypothetical interpretation… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest… — Michele Zackheim Copy Share Image
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
... I get more respect from rap artists than I do from my own industry. I don't always write the kind of… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
When I was in New York working for [Frederick] Kiesler, at night I listened to Jean Shephard who lasted from 1957 until… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the… — Benh Zeitlin Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to… — David Hayter Copy Share Image
I wanted to bring art world ideas into a documentary space. Every medium has its limitations, but if you would like to… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
In the times in which we live it is far too restricting to say that art can only be found in art… — Ken Done Copy Share Image
As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
“That man, especially when he slept, when his features were motionless, showed me my own face, my mask, the flawlessly pure image… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics and has been and continues to be for Latin America in… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The concept of who your audience is becomes more important than your site. Sometimes you can be commissioned to do a piece… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an artist,… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
What I can say is I think [Miley Cyrus] a fantastic artist. She's got a fantastic voice. I made a comment in… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
“You see, each country has a colour, a smell, and also a contagious sickness. In my country the sickness is complacency. In… — Gil Courtemanche Copy Share Image
“The world is full of Guses--good-looking boys and girls who've been dealt the best possible genetic hand by parents and grandparents and… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The secret of a successful art career is to make more art that folks think they need than pieces they just want.… — Jack White Copy Share Image
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
![“When I was in New York working for [Frederick] Kiesler, at night I listened to Jean Shephard who lasted from 1957 until 1976 and then went off the air. But also I was listening to Long John Nebel. Now, Long John was what Art Bell and George Noory do now.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fd/paul-laffoley-7077_air_when-i-was-in-new-york-working-for-frede_855897.jpg)
![“That man, especially when he slept, when his features were motionless, showed me my own face, my mask, the flawlessly pure image of my corpse […] in a state of perfect repose, this resemblance was strikingly evident, and what is death, if not a face at peace – its artistic perfection? Life only…” quote by Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b98/vladimir-nabokov-198_art_that-man-especially-when-he-slept-when-h_1266786.jpg)
![“What I can say is I think [Miley Cyrus] a fantastic artist. She's got a fantastic voice. I made a comment in the past that I really regret making because I never like being mean.” quote by Ed Sheeran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08f/ed-sheeran-2162_art_what-i-can-say-is-i-think-miley-cyrus-a_2780786.jpg)
