When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
“Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood, Tying thine ear to no tongue but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are… — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
“The real reality is there, but everything you KNOW about “it” is in your mind and your to do with as you… — Malaclypse the Younger Copy Share Image
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“Cizek came to Vienna [from Leitmeritz, a small town in Bohemia, then Austrian] when he was twenty [in 1885], and entered the… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
As in nature. and in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones, their… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
At the 'L.A. Times,' I always wanted to write about artists I thought were meaningful. So I interviewed Bob Dylan, John Lennon,… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening… — Emily Lazar Copy Share Image
He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example. — Duane Ludwig Copy Share Image
A lot of people I know blew through their trust funds paying for their friends' art - films and records and stuff… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
“To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command… — Antoni Zygmund Copy Share Image
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I got involved with an organization called Artists for a New South Africa. One of its… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by… — John Green Copy Share Image
I would like to think that an artist's mental health is taken into consideration more now. — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two. -… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I would say that all the singles that I have put out are collectively just a small piece of the artist that… — Thomas Rhett Copy Share Image
Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously… — Dr. Dre Copy Share Image
I really admire the great Japanese artists who could change their name three times in a lifetime. You could get rid of… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
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