I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
“The key to finding happiness in this life is realizing that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness… — Brianna Wiest Copy Share Image
“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
There's no destination. There's no getting anywhere. There's just the going. The key to life is to make the going really fun.… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!'… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I do kind of think there's a bit of an overemphasis on - in the community - on sort of achieving ever-so-slightly… — Jeff Dean Copy Share Image
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“It is in Christianity that our arts have developed; it is in Christianity that the laws of Europe--until recently--have been rooted. It… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
… an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts…a camp for semi-demented adults… Venice is like the… — Sara Davidson Copy Share Image
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine." In order to even cut… — El-P Copy Share Image
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist,… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
You collaborate with actors who are also talented and visionary and come together on a artistic direction within the confines of humanity… — Ruth E. Carter Copy Share Image
I started off just trying to make a wish list for myself. I wanted to work with people I really admire myself.… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
I switched up so that I could work 12-hour shifts at the firm on the weekends so I could have days free… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to… — Karen O Copy Share Image
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people while they're still… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness,… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Most people say that Asian or female artists should be sexy in America, but I don't think that I have to be… — BoA Copy Share Image
This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see… — Ji Lee Copy Share Image
“Steven Pressfield writes in his bestselling book The War of Art, “Self-doubt can be an ally. This is because it serves as… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“Language is art, language is imagery, music, rhythm, thought, responsibility and communication. With the extensive English vocabulary available to us, an abundance… — Ellen Palestrant Copy Share Image
Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) { Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,'… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is my girlfriend, hip-hop is my kid. Hip-Hop fills the void of the things that I don't have. I pay it… — Lloyd Banks Copy Share Image
Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work,… — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
“But, Ashley, what are you afraid of?' 'Oh, nameless things. Things which sound very silly when they are put into words. Mostly… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect. No sports writer would say, "Well the Yankees had a great… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to… — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
