What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist. — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts. — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
My life is full good and bad artists and real villains.. I mean to say my life is full of drama — Kand3n Copy Share Image
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had… — Ellen Forney Copy Share Image
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness. — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
The goal every day of my life is to make some sort of artistic difference on a more profound level than just… — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
“Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes… — Stephen Cosgrove Copy Share Image
Unless you are in a survival situation, if you allow yourself to be creative, to be thinking, to be developing, there will… — Paola Pivi Copy Share Image
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