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 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
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
“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
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
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
I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Mickalene [Thomas] is an artist that I have admired for a long time. So much of her work inspires me - I… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
It’s a beautiful, distinctive art, and shoes are like the foundations. If the foundations aren’t right, the building won’t stand upright, and… — Jimmy Choo Copy Share Image
“Man may have rank and position and a thousand qualifications, he may possess all the good of the earth, but if he… — Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“Are the computers going to fail?” one of the artists asked him, licking ketchup off her thumb. She asked it like she… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease… — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate -… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a good artist. --- I can create colors in my life to make it beautiful. Be yours and nothing would… — Jehan Fostanes Nayga Copy Share Image
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to one's work. — Jillian Mayer Copy Share Image
“at its essence theology is the art of gospelizing, that is, making the gospel shape our thinking, praying, preaching, teaching, and ministering… — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to… — Kelly McGillis Copy Share Image
I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think… — Kaytranada Copy Share Image
Some artists can work under one guise, whether it's a name or a band or doing film soundtracks, put all of their… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also. — Friedrich Holderlin Copy Share Image
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“There’s something about being naïve. Really interesting things come because you don’t know what the rules are, what you can and can’t… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I did an art foundation course, and I knew I wanted to do something in a creative field. And fashion just seemed… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes fans or supporters say "I love this artist" but they may not realize that he loves them back. — Prince Royce Copy Share Image
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence… — Marcel Dzama Copy Share Image
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form. — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Love depends on decisions, Wrong decision breaks up the heart, Happy decision comforts the heart, So decide your decisions. — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
![“Mickalene [Thomas] is an artist that I have admired for a long time. So much of her work inspires me - I spend time looking at her work when I'm writing. I feel like we're working toward the same themes, and I see our work in conversation, whether we know it or not.” quote by Morgan Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/960/morgan-parker-6193_art_mickalene-thomas-is-an-artist-that-i-hav_1355829.jpg)
