“I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.” — Jill Telford Copy Share Image
I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other. — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In an art gallery,a couple saw a picture of a lady,only covered with leaves. Husband:-watching wife:-u leave from here or u wait… — Gautam Copy Share Image
“The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented. — Jack Larson Copy Share Image
“An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men” — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
As writers, you spend so long trying to build your cred as a writer, and then everything comes together at the same… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
“You're perfect the way you are, Anna. You're a work of art." He kissed my chest, just above my left breast. "Don't… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
I had mentors, growing up in gay life - older gay men who told me about our history and the history of… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
“The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
I used to always say - and I think a lot of artists think of it this way - that when you… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Sometimes, of course, the artist does give up, saying, in effect, "I've done enough". Prospero declares that the revels are ended, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There were a lot experiences I had during my transition and post transition, and I feel that I learned a lot, and… — Brian Michael Smith Copy Share Image
Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
“Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are… — John Berger Copy Share Image
It is my hope that visitors, artists, and students from around the world will experience all that MoMA has to offer for… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing. — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world. — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them. — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“When thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet 'underneath' thee 'are everlasting arms'. Sin may drag thee ever so low, but… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well. — Cecily Strong Copy Share Image
Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description. — Alexander Stoddart Copy Share Image
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience. — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
At the age of 15, I did not know anything about the art of performing in front of the camera. — Simi Garewal Copy Share Image
“I much applaud thy judgement; thou art well-read in a fellow. And 'tis the deepest art to study man.” — Thomas Middleton Copy Share Image
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Art is supposed to be some kind of transcendent moment. Fashion has sometimes done that. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
Designers are not artists. They may have the talent of one, but if they want to work in that way they should… — Antoine Arnault Copy Share Image
Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
