The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words --… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
“Art is love-times-love; the creator loves it and his audience adores it. To miss the sensation of loving art is to miss… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
I was in film school, we were making a movie, and the teacher told me 'You cannot make movies like this.' I… — Darby Allin Copy Share Image
I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt… — Kari Matchett Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
“For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see… — Iris van Herpen Copy Share Image
While filling color to someone's life to whom you really love & care, make sure to fill little color of joy &… — Navnath Godse Copy Share Image
“if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Every child has known God, Not the God of names, Not the God of don'ts, Not the God who ever does Anything… — Hafiz Copy Share Image
And one of the things I noticed pretty early on in art school was that my classmates had no notion of an… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is… — Ursus Wehrli Copy Share Image
Whether it's a song or a television show, or a book or poem, art is the thing that cracks me open and… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
My favorite places in Moscow are the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art - it has a wonderful collection of Impressionists - the… — Sasha Pivovarova Copy Share Image
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore.… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an… — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
“Through depression and many other dark low emotions, our Light dims and our immune system declines along with it. White blood cells… — Jacqueline Ripstein Copy Share Image
[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
What inspires me today is a desire to get closer to an understanding of what my artistic capacities are with the hope… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
I'm a planner, an organizer. I write things down because you can visually check them off and see progress. Writing things down… — Will Grier Copy Share Image
Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it… Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of… — Bible Copy Share Image
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art,… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
“You break through the veil whenever you strap on a sword or chant the ancient verses. You escape when you write a… — Jef Murray Copy Share Image
There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
“I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred to… — Wendy Froud Copy Share Image
Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“To question the world around us and all its complexities is not blasphamy, but simply using the mind God gave us for… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image