“You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
In fifth grade I started out writing simple raps and bringing them to school and everyone thought they were hot. I used… — Chris Webby Copy Share Image
Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general:… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care how great the artist is. I find… — George Benson Copy Share Image
“It's not important whether someone is a gourmet. Everyone wants to eat and knows that food is crucial to live. But everyone… — Kyung-Ran Jo Copy Share Image
In my junior year of high school, I went to a boarding school for the arts: a school called the Governor's School… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne? Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for… — Jack White Copy Share Image
...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the point is this Monsieur...the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
We were film geeks. We devoured everything: really obscure art films, foreign films. We were the kind of guys that lived at… — Anthony Russo Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that… — Richard Lewis Copy Share Image
In the fashion world, you have to make clothes to sell. You have to make clothes for the press. You have to… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
I think drawing is really the basis of all art, even sculpture, film. The greatest filmmakers have always been able to at… — David Small Copy Share Image
“Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn't what I was interested… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“But all these revolutions resulted in good to the people. Education, public spirit, enterprise, labor, all the arts of civilization, and even… — E. E. (Ezra Eastman) Adams Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space.… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I've discovered that like every writer, I'm helpless MYSELF - and that means I find myself unconsciously or semi-consciously repeating motifs and… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Millet's Sower is an invented sower who is burdened with the artist's thoughts; he is but a creeping shadow on a ploughed… — Julius Meier-Graefe Copy Share Image
As a label I don't care about piracy. I want the music that we [my band] love to be heard by as… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
There's something to be said about making music that has just some pure element that can communicate with everyone. I like when… — Alex G Copy Share Image
It's so important for people to have a space that they love, and that you wake up happy every morning in your… — Drew Scott Copy Share Image
“A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Wealth protects and animates art and literature, as the dew enlivens the fields." Nonsense! Wealth animates art and literature, as the whistle… — Various Copy Share Image
The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each… — Shigeru Egami Copy Share Image
I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It could be said that Borluut was in love with the town. But we only have one heart for all our loves,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“Creativity and expression of one’s art can only be measured by the audience to whom it was intended for. Not everyone is… — Anne-Rae Vasquez Copy Share Image
“When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
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