Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds. — Alex Scally Copy Share Image
if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of… — Horace Copy Share Image
Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
When I wrote for myself before as an artist, I probably wrote about 15, 20 songs a year. I thought that was… — LP Copy Share Image
Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old.… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator. — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted. — Ahmed Best Copy Share Image
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life. — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I… — Andrea Suarez Paz Copy Share Image
People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals… — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most. — Mod Sun Copy Share Image
The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end,… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As an artist I'm very aware of what I call Picasso-napkin syndrome - I've got this 20th century version of the midas… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
