I don't understand why anyone would collect my work. Please understand... it's like writing Our House. It took me an hour, it… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The model stripped down naked and stood with her arms out to her sides while genderless cohorts sprayed her body with large… — Margot Berwin Copy Share Image
“Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Art is sexless; - good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it. ... Ah,… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed.… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
“Yang indah memang bisa menghibur selama-lamanya, membubuhkan luka selama-lamanya, meskipun puisi dan benda seni bisa lenyap. Ia seakan-akan roh yang hadir dan… — Goenawan Mohamad Copy Share Image
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on… — Roberto Burle Marx Copy Share Image
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
I feel like, paying homage to an artist, it's better to do something that's inspired by them - a new work that's… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Works of art are like a Trojan horse. Under the surface is always some artist's deeply held philosophy on their view of… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
I listened to a lot of Amy Winehouse: her albums 'Frank' and 'Back to Black'. She was such an incredible artist. She… — Daya Copy Share Image
All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“A hundred francs! Oh, dear me! It is worth millions of francs, my child. But my -- dealer -- here tells me… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It's just odd that something as essential in life as sex has been flattened out in mainstream cinema - and in art… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders.… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
We don't sell a watch to give time. We sell a piece of art. We sell an object that represents something to… — Ricardo Guadalupe Copy Share Image
Merely knowing your craft will never be enough to make a picture. If you ever amount to anything at all, it will… — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't… — Troy Garity Copy Share Image
There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Moonless darkness stands between. Past, the Past, no more be seen! But the Bethlehem-star may lead me To the sight of Him… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
I feel that one of the roles of the artist, in the way I define it, is that I need to be… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
What gives my art the most meaning is when I can connect with others through it. When people say that my music… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“…and I smile and know why people write music and paint and dance, lifted as if they can fly, because this ache… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
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