In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives… — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
I read comic books when I was a kid. Now I have a passion for art and galleries that I think came… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
“Hemingway is there in Finca Vigía. Find out what he thinks of Castro. He’s a man dedicated to his art and has… — Paul Vidich Copy Share Image
That's why art is so fantastic: It can keep being adapted to move with society's vision as well as the original. — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival. — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A lot of the work I've been doing on camera has been me speaking on trans issues and illuminating things in a… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche.… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
I'm not a mainstream artist. But I've seen my kids being born; I've seen them take their first steps, I've seen them… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I'm a happy member of the church. I'm proud of it and defend it. It makes me bold and gives me confidence.… — Catherine Hicks Copy Share Image
“The vast body of literature, in every domain, is composed of hand-me-down ideas. The question — never resolved, alas! — is to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from… — Edward Swift Copy Share Image
“People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.” — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
“By the way, in case you weren't paying attention or something, did you catch what Mr. Powell called me? "Young artist." I… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I think artists like Justin Bieber really opened up a door for younger artists to be respected in the industry. I really… — Jackson Guthy Copy Share Image
I think Baltimore is a wonderful artistic community with a lot of great musicians. It's kind of like a little secret for… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
“Anyway, Art [making] is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds, isn't that so, dear… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
For all artists... you want to be loved and adored by as many people as you can. But the moral we've learned… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
“A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey. — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen! — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things. — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. — Alexander Eliot Copy Share Image
People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it. — Victoria Legrand Copy Share Image
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. — H. W. Janson Copy Share Image
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business.… — Demian Bichir Copy Share Image