“Haven't I told you scores of times, that you're always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top,… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Things are not all so comprehensible and utterable as people would mostly have us believe; most events are unutterable, consummating themselves in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Cafés overflowed anytime but early mornings, for there were few commuters in the neighborhood at that time. After noon, the self-employed, or… — Phoebe Damrosch Copy Share Image
I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's… — Brenda Brathwaite Copy Share Image
The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“While the Roman Empire was overrun by waves not only of Ostrogoths, Vizigoths and even Goths, but also of Vandals (who destroyed… — W.C. Sellar Copy Share Image
I haven't talked to any young artists for a long time. But if we did sit down, I'd definitely tell them my… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment… — Will Wright Copy Share Image
I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you… — Lawrence Halprin Copy Share Image
Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
“I wish art was like money in that the more I made, the more interest it developed and plentiful it became. Money… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
To be a good artist, you need to be sensitive to the world around you, you need to be curious, you need… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
“I can hear cars on the freeway, it’s like a distant sea sludged with people while over my other shoulder, far over… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is… — John Wain Copy Share Image
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My parents were very, very good about not separating us as kids from their adult friends. So on any given night, we'd… — Mike D Copy Share Image
What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I don't think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
“The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Once you begin to see God's hand in your life, you will know that his workmanship within you and through you was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've been super lucky in that I've either been in or helped create situations where I do what I want. I'm super… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
“English tourists returned home [from the Italian Campagna] eager to make their own estates resemble Arcadian art. This fertile connection between horticultural… — Karen R. Jones & John Wills Copy Share Image
I have a grandson who's both really interested in art and all things mechanical, so I think he'll get a huge kick… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's all about perspective: different people need different forms of musical medicine. What matters most is if the artist or musician or… — Raye Copy Share Image
There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics,… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
I feel like there are a number of indie artists... as they grow, it makes the most sense for them to pivot… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
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