Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed...… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There's a great body of people who flower at night, who feel night is their time. Night is the time people truly… — John Crosby Copy Share Image
I deeply appreciate the CSA and its initiatives to build equity in the industry by giving a platform to marginalized artists and… — Brian Michael Smith Copy Share Image
I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist.… — Nelly Copy Share Image
“And as the recession continues and our prospects look bleaker and bleaker, I’m excited. I look to the past to see what… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
Like William Morris, Joe Hollis asks us to perceive paradise gardening as a juncture where artfulness directly serves life. In fact, we… — Jim Nollman Copy Share Image
I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis,… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. And… — Questlove Copy Share Image
The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten,… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
I do think music and the arts are imperative for our kids for their creative learning and their emotional education, which breeds… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“We talked of a future life, of art, service, marriage, and education; nor did the idea ever occur to us that very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more… — Donald Kuspit Copy Share Image
The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis falsely printed, though… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Part of my mission is simply that: to bring the world of the arts, particularly classical music, closer to people so they… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever.… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
I embrace the middle ground, because curiously it has more edge to it than the cutting edge. It has been a weirdly… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“In fact, there is an axiom of martial arts training that everyone ought to know: The way you train is the way… — Renzo Gracie Copy Share Image
I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Happiness, thou art naught but an illusion. Thy enchantments are cast upon my eyes, my mind, my spellbound heart. Dependent upon nothing… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind… — David Rasche Copy Share Image
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“Tell me something boss. What do you think is the highest form of art? 'Literature," he answered without hesitation. 'Painters and sculptors… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
Jimmy Iovine, he pretty much started off as an engineer and a producer, and then he started up a label. Then he… — Mike Will Made It Copy Share Image
“Buch Der Lieder: Lyrisches Intermezzo: ‘Es liegt der heisse Sommer’ There lies the heat of summer On your cheek’s lovely art: There… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
