“do you want to know how to seduce the night? this is not a poem about the stars or the moon because… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
“Artists operating within the theistic worldview have a solid basis for their work. Nothing is more freeing than for them to realize… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
“Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence; Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part. They taught me to… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“The gaze of others is quite without indulgence for our defects and that of Mantegna is pitiless. I am grateful to him.… — Marie Ferranti Copy Share Image
“Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it.… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result,… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Making art, being creative, is risky, especially for actors, but everybody on the set is being creative. You're putting yourself out there… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers… — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“A famous artist is approached by a student. "You don't remember me," the student says correctly, "but years ago you said something… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both… — Brad Delson Copy Share Image
If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
“Robinson had long mastered the art of coming instantly awake, a skill which had proved invaluable when his children were young. He… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have… — Edwin Howard Armstrong Copy Share Image
Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs… — Hasso Plattner Copy Share Image
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child,… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I always thought my big brother was the coolest. We were very close when I was young, and we still are in… — Rekha Sharma Copy Share Image
The reason why I'm not a pop star is I would have hated it. I'll stick to being an artist. I'm not… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I hate the phrase “One thing led to another”. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“El duende is literally the goblin wind or force behind a person’s actions and creative life, including the way they walk, the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
As actors and actresses, we must rejoice in the possession of our physical faculties. We must experience joy in the use of… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear,… — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
“The Cabbage White The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
