I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“No,” he said after a pause, “the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with… — Deborah Turbeville Copy Share Image
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
This Catholic thing, I think what it does is it makes a place for mystery in a person. And even when the… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“One of the most magical things about photography happens when you place one picture next to another picture to create new meanings.… — Todd Hido Copy Share Image
There have been projects out there involving my father, but they've lacked a complete understanding of his philosophies and artistry. They haven't… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I love working with young artists. Jacob Latimore was the first kid that I auditioned. After he walked out, I turned to… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because… — Roger Bart Copy Share Image
“In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Television was restricted by my parents. They encouraged reading more than anything. It wasn't done in a let's-get-educated kind of way, it… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
You know, martial arts is all about respect and discipline and it's always been about that. But again, people are starting to… — Alexander Volkanovski Copy Share Image
Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which… — Doseone Copy Share Image
“They stood, a family, and walked out of the mall, into the sunlight, seeking to rearrange the shape of their surroundings, to… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“Reflection is time sensitive; and with the realization that the 'present' and 'future' can be altered, it is also purposeful, for we… — Patricia H. Graham Copy Share Image
I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to… — Jack White Copy Share Image
If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“In a poem, melody, or picture, we are forced with a mystery: quality in the metaphysical sense of the word. How could… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We have a lot of heroes. We have Asian heroes, we have Asian American heroes, men, women, of all ages, and not… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“If thou art worn and hard beset, With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget; If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
There is no other art medium like tattooing in the world. When the customer comes in with a basic idea, it is… — William Webb Copy Share Image
To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
