“Boomer had asked her once, in a telephone call from Virginia, “Why does this stuff, these hand-painted hallucinations that don’t do nothin’… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history,… — Clement Mok Copy Share Image
“So," Art [Green] said, "it's hard to do Judaism and travel light. Judaism is not mostly about letting go, but mostly about… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day… — John Cage Copy Share Image
My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you become sufficiently expert in the state of the art, you stop picking ideas at random. You are thoughtful in how… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“In a 1963 performance entitled "Who R U?" at the San Francisco Museum of Art, Stern and Callahan added highway sounds to… — Fred Turner Copy Share Image
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“We have lived for too long with the arts as the pretty bit around the edge with the reality as a non-artistic… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I think the narcissism comes from the industry side of things. The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
“Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s… — paul hoffman Copy Share Image
But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think it's quite obvious my work is made by a woman, because I have never wanted to make anything that is… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy.… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, English artists like the Rolling Stones and Joe Cocker began recording in the States, and at that point,… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter… — Nathan Rabin Copy Share Image
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Pre-Raphaelites they called themselves; not that they imitated the early Italian masters at all, but that in their work, as opposed to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
What you need to know about the next piece is contained in the last piece. The place to learn about your materials… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I am a lifelong career artist, which itself is a bit of a miracle. It's really challenging to be a career artist.… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
“To the horror of those who can genuinely claim to have suffered from its effects, alienation has proved a highly profitable commodity… — Martin Jay Copy Share Image
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