He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well. — Jaime Zevallos Copy Share Image
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“done coma, walking/talking,art, cookery. scouts then wrote two books, asked for help, gave a book to HRH Princess Anne, tried publisher, got… — Gillian Firth Copy Share Image
We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The so-called "secondary market" has also always been something that I'm comfortable with. I'm not a dealer who turns his nose up… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
“You will struggle. You will be mocked. You will be alone. The world will not give you recognition. The world will not… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks...… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
My two goals are to read everything Edith Wharton has ever written and to have an art collection. — Kellie Martin Copy Share Image
Who would know that the most beautiful pieces of art would come form the most ugliest situations — Amir Brown Copy Share Image
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement,… — Jaime Hernandez Copy Share Image
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is. — James Ransone Copy Share Image
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.” — Semen Frank Copy Share Image
It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to… — Leonardo Drew Copy Share Image
As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself. — Ann Magnuson Copy Share Image
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
We're always trying to make advancements in the arts and technology, so it's somewhat inevitable that we're going to make holograms of… — Borns Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
F you're an artist and you have dreams don't stop fighting because dreams really do come true. — Dahvie Vanity Copy Share Image
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
You try to say, 'I'm not a Christian artist, I'm an artist who's a Christian.' But public perception puts limits on who… — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
