I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
“As if the aim of a beautiful view is to create a great artist or to make the lonely to forget his… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“The very first thing I remember in my early childhood is a flame, a blue flame jumping off a gas stove somebody… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I went to.… — Cassie Ventura Copy Share Image
To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture… — Robert Stromberg Copy Share Image
“The San Francisco therapist kept telling me I shouldn’t be terrified of creative experimentation. “I don’t know what’s going to come out… — Suzanne Rivecca Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York… — Julia Garner Copy Share Image
“The art lies in setting the inner life into the most violent motion with the smallest possible expenditure of outer life; for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The parents are making threatening noises, turning dinner into performance art, with dad doing his Arnold Schwarzenegger imitation and mom playing Glenn… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
“All of that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS,” she declares. “What are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Literature and the other arts play with pattern - our brains understand our world by recognizing patterns - and with possibility. The… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic… — Kahil Gibran Copy Share Image
People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think that if I'm being brutally honest, I fill my cup up by isolating myself and having solitude. Time to just… — Doechii Copy Share Image
I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when… — Zendaya Copy Share Image
works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
In my paintings, the question on whether figures are similar or not is not of any importance, the slightest change of figure… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's really cool that videogames are getting more and more sophisticated and believable, and that people who worked on movies… — Mark Walton Copy Share Image
'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“The creator wrestles with a hard, invisible substance, a substance far superior to him. Even the greatest victor emerges vanquished, because our… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do… — Moby Copy Share Image
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now… — John Baldacci Copy Share Image
“GARY: Speaking of pain and blood, did you read about the artist who raised all these frogs in his apartment and released… — Philippe De Vosjoli Copy Share Image
“Like many of us left here I thought I knew you. Now I discover that in your company it is myself I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started. I think there are people -… — El-P Copy Share Image
“between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Record industry's not so much against artists, but certain people are just wicked people that sit up in the industry who go… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
I’m just so glad that I have other members. If I was a solo artist, I don’t think I would have been… — Kim Tae-yeon Copy Share Image
“If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [of gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
I know a lot of artists say this, but it's hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
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