“Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home: Is this a holiday? what! know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walk… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Music changes constantly, especially when you're a 'pop' artist. What's mainstream or pop always has new influences, new sounds, and I love… — Pedro Capo Copy Share Image
What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Every run is a work of art, a drawing on each day's canvas. Some runs are shouts and some runs are whispers.… — Dagny Scott Barrios Copy Share Image
There was an era when people would turn on their radio and hear a radio drama. Now, you could be as scared… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
“When singers, actors or artists touch on sorrow, they are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
I always had something to think about or draw from, which as an actor is a gift. The beautiful thing about film… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
For me, a diva is like the great opera singer, the great film star - out of reach, in their own world,… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you like looking at 'Starry Night' or water lilies or whatever, then why does it matter if it's an original? If… — Chris Cubas Copy Share Image
“as possible while being selfish enough to get immersed in your art. There’s a balance, and it takes a lifetime to figure… — Paul Jarvis Copy Share Image
A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice… — Tony Iommi Copy Share Image
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and… — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
“I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the fresh load of guests would turn up before we had got rid of the previous group, and the chaos was… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
Growing up with a punk-rock background and being an artist all my life, tattooing was something that naturally came to me, I… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of… — Andrea Thompson Copy Share Image
“If love were a collection of collections, would your relationship be banged-up baseball cards, or famous art? My love for you is… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
Doin' music, musicians and artists, we have the advantage of doin' something that is our passion. At the same time it's fun,… — Tyga Copy Share Image
As artists we have an extraordinary and rare privilege to tell the stories of our people, our land, our culture. They grip… — Mena Massoud Copy Share Image
My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“There is a universal reservoir, the source of all knowledge, which is the same for the arts and sciences as for philosophy… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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