The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
The world of psychology and the world of normal life tends to look down on obsession. It's not good for you, and… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
“I felt bad because Little Big Tom came in while we were making the tape and was like over the moon because… — Frank Portman Copy Share Image
The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities -… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I haven't really lost faith in my work - other than for quite short periods when the work is harder than usual… — Jessica Abel Copy Share Image
“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The secret art of inviting blessings. The spiritual medicine of all diseases. Morning and night, join your hands in prayer and repeat… — Mikao Usui Copy Share Image
In a way, the whole music industry is just catering to the inherent esteem issues all these artists have - it lays… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
“Others may do as they please, but as for me,' he concluded ferociously, 'I shall never disclose to anybody that an acrobat,… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to… — Charles Morgan Copy Share Image
When you're not as accessible, you get in a tent and get in your own head, and you start doing things that… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a lot of people think about how to be business-savvy as an artist, they think about how to brand themselves. At… — Soccer Mommy Copy Share Image
“I am no sort of art expert. I have only been to the Whitney once before, on a previous business visit that… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
I love reggae because of its messages. Bob Marley sings so many positive, impactful songs, he raises people's consciousness. Artists like Chronixx,… — Koffee Copy Share Image
Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
“Mad! Quite mad!' said Stalky to the visitors, as one exhibiting strange beasts. 'Beetle reads an ass called Brownin', and M'Turk reads… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write;… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes… — Mitchel Musso Copy Share Image
If someone doesn't like another artist's song, that's their prerogative. But now it's kind of scary, and I never thought of it… — Havana Brown Copy Share Image
I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality,… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side,… — Russell James Copy Share Image
I think that music is stale because of it. I think that we have the same artists from day to day. It's… — Willa Ford Copy Share Image
When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
I definitely believe that the power of the artist is in the artist's hands now. We're kind of in the wild, wild… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who… — Marjorie Celona Copy Share Image
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