I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there.… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career,… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
“You have a disconcerting way of looking at me so directly that I feel as though you could see right through into… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain,… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
We think it hugely important to support young artists, there is a war against that kind of artistry, that kind of creation...When… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I enjoyed cross-country road trips. And I found the work challenging because it was art that existed on the land rather than… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
“I understand, my lord. I…don’t wish to embarrass you again.” “Embarrass me? Jean, you misunderstand.” Maranzalla kicked idly at the toy rapier,… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
“I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re either a revolutionary or you’re not, and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“Why incentivize laziness? High-school students shouldn't be discouraged from grappling, sometimes unsuccessfully, with challenging books, pictures, and songs. A really, really good… — Jeff Sypeck Copy Share Image
I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to every woman.” It might have been a mummy dispensing elder wisdom. “One is rational, like a man.… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
I don't think film schools are mentoring kids. I think they just send them through the curriculum, so now you know how… — Rob Nilsson Copy Share Image
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Playboys' was an authentic junkie record. Art Pepper was just out of jail, Chet was arrested a week after the session, and… — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America,… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
“When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
If you are on Craigslist to get a sofa, and you see one for free. You think there’s something tragically wrong with… — Jessica Hische Copy Share Image
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I like art; if I could just draw pictures all day, I would, but I can't; I'm horrible. I practiced at it,… — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
DYT, under the direction of Paula Garfield, was my first experience of deaf performing arts and I loved my time there. It… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
