Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender. — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it. — Dong Kingman Copy Share Image
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The true art of living consists in converting stopping-stones into stepping-stones! — Dada JP Vaswani Copy Share Image
The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.” — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
The top-tier artists of the game are always tapped in. That's why you can see a dude like Drake do a song… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but… — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
“She needed to appreciate the art of violence, the beauty in fear, the fragility of her own life.” — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999),… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I have a running daydream about winning an Oscar and giving my speech about how ridiculous it is to rank art. And… — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
The Ninja Turtles made me who I am today in a big way. It was my favorite show as a kid. It… — Greg Cipes Copy Share Image
In this kind of super-capitalistic society, everything is turned into money. And one of the great things about art is it isn't… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and… — Ernst Boris Chain Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of self is one of the most important ideas in The Art of War. It is imperative that you know your… — Grant Lichtman Copy Share Image
I enjoy reading and thinking, and it's hard to make that space as an artist. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it. — Jaune Quick–to–See Smith Copy Share Image
Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists. — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Art, inspiration, love, they're all so easy to dissect. To explain away.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead, — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
