“Why must the female mind be tainted by coquetish arts to gratify the sensualist, and prevent love from subsiding into friendship or… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work… — Brooke McEldowney Copy Share Image
“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
... art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
“There is a popular notion that artists work from inspiration—that there is some strike or bolt or bubbling up of creative mojo… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In… — William James Copy Share Image
Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“...It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they… — Bill Drummond Copy Share Image
“My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you.… — Lorde Copy Share Image
“Their is a side of me that wants to do artistic things that would never be on the radio. Then their is… — Josh Ramsay of Marianas Trench Copy Share Image
The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make a record in May… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“Then playwriting itself became a nettle, became several in fact; the shallowness, the wasted time, the messiness of other minds, the hopelessness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just draw 'cause you love it, you know, I think that's why you should be doing it. You should always be doing… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also… — Matthew Brannon Copy Share Image
“Thus, since time immemorial, it has been customary to accept the criticism of art from a man who may or may not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“As Schell had taught me, "a con starts when there is something you want and you are blocked from attaining it by… — Jeffrey Ford Copy Share Image
I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to… — Willow Shields Copy Share Image
For me narcissism is not about money. For me, narcissism is something so romantic and something so human. Everybody is a narcissist.… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Not everyone would choose to pay the costly price of being a great artist. To many, the riches of life are quite… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave… — Kesh Copy Share Image
A real good artist learns to be a better person through all the changes they've been through. They keep their loving and… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
“The world is captivated by Hollywood superstars, music artists, and sports personalities. Hollywood is portrayed as the epitome of beauty and fashion… — John Rudy Copy Share Image
There are records I'll listen to one time and zero in on what's happening, and then I'll listen again to something I… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of thousands of musicians, artists, painters, poets, writers and bricklayers, and we certainly need walls, music and art, but… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Every woman, even the most respectable, had roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife; curls of Indian ink; there was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I know Ritchie Valens in 1959 had 'La Bamba' but to be totally Spanish - because, you know, Ritchie didn't speak Spanish… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I speak to everybody. I'm one of those kind of artists that I'm cool with everybody. If they [fans] want to meet… — Lil Jon Copy Share Image
“I’m only going to say this once: there’s a difference between writing and creating art. Anyone can write, but only a few… — Saffron A. Kent Copy Share Image