Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“Remember, as artists we don't know diddly. We're winging it every day. For us to try to second-guess our Muse the way… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The producing side is always a hard thing for me. I look at Flying Lotus and see producers dropping instrumentals, and I… — Kaytranada Copy Share Image
I moved in with my grandma when I was 17 and she had this giant bookshelf and it was fascinating to me.… — Christian Madsen Copy Share Image
“The twin aspects of genius, the passive and the active, are possessed by the fully realized artist; they also form the necessary… — Kenneth Grant Copy Share Image
When the enemy's envoy's speak in humble terms, but continues his preparations, he will advance. When their language is deceptive but the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Great artists come and go; they are born and they die; but there is one exception who has been living for thousands… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Her makeup artist, Allan Snyder, recalled applying her makeup in the morning while she was still flat on her back in bed.… — J. Randy Taraborrelli Copy Share Image
That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New… — Anna Camp Copy Share Image
Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the… — Hugh Hopper Copy Share Image
It's incredible how much beauty exists in the world of music and how many artists you can really inspire with your own… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but... I needed… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain. — Cung Le Copy Share Image
When I did the Art of Living course in Mumbai in 1996, I really didn't know what to expect. — Rhea Pillai Copy Share Image
A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“Happiness is an art mastered by the very few. Genuinely happy people are as rare as Christians who believe in God.” — Albert Vigoleis Thelen Copy Share Image
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We communicate through art with symbols that transcend the boundaries of time and culture. — Richard Clar Copy Share Image
One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
“The most glorious works of art, the ones that bring the purest joy – perhaps they need not be touched or known,… — Michelle Cuevas Copy Share Image
The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
