“The customs people were angered by my drawings. I told them I didn’t make the drawings to cause trouble; I was an… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“By the end of the second day a very fine head was revealed. Yes, a very fine head indeed, sharp beard, drooped… — J.L. Carr Copy Share Image
“Art, literature, and philosophy are attempts to found the world anew on a human freedom: that of the creator; to foster such… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“It's rather the possibility of friendship, unencumbered by feelings of attraction or shyness; the possibility of working on the same wavelength, as… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself.… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Are [the arts and the sciences] really as distinct as we seem to assume? [...] Most universities will have distinct faculties of… — Stephen Mumford Copy Share Image
“The assertion that only sex is power and the arrogation of creativity to the masculine sex and the rendering of all creativity… — Somer Brodribb Copy Share Image
To me, paintings are about beauty. They are very feminine, and beauty is something very feminine. For a long time, people would… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
“It is understandable that there has been a good deal of joking about purely learned works of this type. Their actual value… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How difficult it is to exist, that we are athlete and artist. We have injuries. People don't see the hard side of… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as… — T.I Copy Share Image
The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me,… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Ideally, we would be… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I think swag is very important to rappers. It's the overall appearance and style of an artist - these blue shorts and… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do.… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Some drink to forget, I drink to remember. I drink in order to understand what I mean and to discover what I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I try to make things as versatile as possible. Usually, you have to listen to one artist for a certain vibe and… — Kyle Copy Share Image
I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and… — Frida Giannini Copy Share Image
I never considered myself an artist. I aspire to be an artist, but I never thought I had the depth or substance… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A child came up to me and asked 'am I dreaming?' I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
What we definitely agree with Walter on is that filmmaking is teamwork. It's one of the only arts that is truly based… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
“Who makes the world? Is it our engineers who build our ships and bridges and skyscrapers? Is it the artist who imagine… — Jon Allen Copy Share Image
“Yet entertainment--as I define it, pleasure and all--remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark,… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
“All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Making people dance has another function that has nothing to do with art, and I mean that in the most positive way… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I want to make music and songs about things that real musicians and artist aren't able to make songs about - you… — Jake Paul Copy Share Image
“One day people will come back. they won't be able to help themselves. People need music and dance and beautiful things. They… — Nadia Aguiar Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts.… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
“An artistic image is one that ensures its own development, its historical viability. An image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism.… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image