But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
“A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
Overall, everyone has been respectful of my boundaries and my morals as a Christian and an artist. Sometimes I'll go to photo… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
“One thing I’ve learned about art is that, it’s not perfect. It doesn’t have to be a flawless masterpiece. I’m not perfect,… — Jac Prescott Copy Share Image
Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster,… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
I've always been very opinionated, for lack of a better term, about art. Not to sound too arrogant, but I guess I'm… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my… — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
“What follows is the sum and substance of a remarkable year in a great artist’s life— Alexander Wainwright. He was at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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“...it's as if I have just solved Skivver's predictive equations, or even better, as if I have intuited the One Equation, seen… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
“Art has no answers, only solutions, and resolutions... Art has only vision and revision... Art has only hope and more hope... again… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
Great architects like Taut, Mendelsohn, and Gropius built some astonishing buildings which were to change the way architects around the world thought.… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work… — Jan Phillips Copy Share Image
Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
It's tempting to think, 'This is silly. I'm an artist. I care about my work, my work is first. I don't care… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
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I admire actresses who are willing to jettison the easy route toward exposure and commercial success as an actor in favor or… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
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Cuts in a sector are never going to be welcomed, and arts funding cut by up to 30% doesn't make nice reading.… — Roxanne Emery Copy Share Image
The unusual thing about doing street poster art - or something with a conscious social critique in it - is that the… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Eighty-three percent of our students are Pell Grant-eligible, which means, by and large, that their families have a dysfunctional relationship with wealth… — Michael Sorrell Copy Share Image
I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
I don't have any sympathy for the subject matter, [but] I have great respect for rap artists. In fact, not for the… — Stewart Copeland Copy Share Image
Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Being promoted as a bubble-gum type artist that has one hit and it's all over is not something I want to do.… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
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