People look to 'Dear White People' as an encyclopedia of our culture. But it's also art, and there are characters with different… — Logan Browning Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something,… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. — Walter Hagen Copy Share Image
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
I've seen nerdists make tributes to their obsessions out of Legos that are like works of art. It just goes to show… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I'm lucky I'm friends with a lot of artists and filmmakers and creators. My life is pretty wonderful. I'm one of those… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
Artists frequently argue that videos trivialize a song and that touring for months at a time works against the creative process, not… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
Van Gogh cut off his ear for his art. I'm not tryin' to cut off my ear. I'm not humiliating myself. — Rosie Perez Copy Share Image
In the middle of a perfect tranquillity, it is an art to imagine about the nightmares of storms! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“As with everything else, the more we separate ourselves from each other, the weaker we become.” — Bursts of Brilliance for a Creative Life blog Teresa R. Funke Copy Share Image
Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away. — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist,… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Music has always been a visual thing to me, so writing and drawing the 'Skin&Earth' comics, which tie cohesively with the music,… — Lights Copy Share Image
Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“[He] told me more than once that being with me is like an epileptic with a pacemaker being married to a strobe… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“A gypsy girl approached Don Zana and Alfanhui and held out her tambourine. Don Zana said to her, 'You don't pay for… — Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio Copy Share Image
The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind? — Eugene J. Martin Copy Share Image
I would like to do more projects involving artists from film, fashion and music. That's the spark for me. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,” — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
“However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau” — Jean-Jaeques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I am more aware of the world now, the tiny insignificant things especially. I am beginning to be more childlike. For an… — Thomas DeBaggio Copy Share Image
I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29,… — Jay Duplass Copy Share Image
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word, for thou art not so long by the head as honor… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
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