What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet. — Jillian Barberie Copy Share Image
I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality. — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most… — Jerry Adler Copy Share Image
For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? WHY YOUR FIVE-YEAR-OLD COULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT HOW TO SURVIVE MODERN ART” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Oh my God, everyday is a constant struggle and battle. Especially with an artist like me, when what I am doing is… — Syleena Johnson Copy Share Image
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood.… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
There is some other form that you contain within yourself that is not will or purpose and, when applied to art, serves… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
“I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others. — Harold Geneen Copy Share Image
“We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance.… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came… — Jack Lowden Copy Share Image
“Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d… — Louis Kahan Copy Share Image
“I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.” — Tyler Hojberg Copy Share Image
Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“All art needs to be funny, sad and a little disturbing simultaneously or else it's not art.” — Ezekiel Tyrus Copy Share Image
“We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate on them well,” wrote Emerson. Is it true? If… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
We're trying to teach artists that if you're smart enough to develop the material, then you're smart enough to market and promote… — David Banner Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the… — Charles Sovek Copy Share Image
A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself — Finn Juhl Copy Share Image
I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then. — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art. — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
“...we see this tendency to throw off restraints in life, in art - it's an inglorious gesture of thumbing the nose -… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
“What had, moments ago, appeared a dangerous gambit, now seemed an elegant coup de maître.” — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film. — Jack O'Connell Copy Share Image
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
