When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I'm a mixed martial arts fighter. But at the end of the day, all experience will help. And experience I got from… — Valentina Shevchenko Copy Share Image
New York, to me, is the arts capital of the world. I just feel so inspired when I'm there. I would love… — Beth Behrs Copy Share Image
All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
“A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness. — Sandra Bowden Copy Share Image
Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
...it's almost natural because when you're an artist you know what you want. And then if you're able to mentally turn that… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
Man is full of energy; it is up to him how to use it! You can use your energy to do harm… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A tenor player named Bud Revels there at the time. A lot of really nice associations amongst the students. Garry Dial was… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a… — Tomie dePaola Copy Share Image
I feel like all artists have to come to L.A. at least once because it's just beautiful. It's peaceful. — Rico Nasty Copy Share Image
Once we realized what happened to Boney M., we wanted to come to the States. In Europe, artists just don't have the… — Rob Pilatus Copy Share Image
Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with… — Anne Dudley Copy Share Image
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart. — John Banville Copy Share Image
I have a lot of guy friends, from martial arts and film, and soccer. I actually barely know women. — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to any artist is surrounding themselves with people who love everything they do. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
I stick to my guns - that's what keeps me going as an artist. Stevie Wonder never changed from what he wanted… — Rakim Copy Share Image
True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world. — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
My whole life, I've been training for something, whether it be baseball or football or wrestling or martial arts. — Chuck Liddell Copy Share Image
I think that's the role of an artist, right? To touch someone and make us stretch out just a little bit more. — Rene Marie Copy Share Image
Getting to do what I have been seeing in all of my favorite artists, and what my peers get to do all… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas. — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Friendship is needless, like philosophy, like art¦.It has no survival value, rather it is one of those things that give value to… — Babloo Copy Share Image
I know what martial arts have done for me. They've taught me integrity, self-control, perseverance and an indomitable spirit. — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
I think with artists and celebrities, you want to be simultaneously supportive of their conversions without putting too much hope and weight… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with. — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at… — Ron Sexsmith Copy Share Image
John Cage is someone I got into as a visual artist, before I even knew his music. I don't think a lot… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
My parents were artists, so my salvation was to make pretty things - and ultimately delicious things at the same time. — Ron Ben-Israel Copy Share Image
Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
