Staying true to my vision, to the word as it comes to me, to my own aesthetic judgments, even when they disagree… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
“She needed a confessor! Would she find it there, in the world of the artists? All over the world they had their… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“There could be no objection to homicidal art as art. One could certainly object that an artwork made out of dead bodies… — John McAteer Copy Share Image
We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“...she imagined how in the chambers of the mind and heart of the woman who was, physically, touching her, were stood, like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
“He smiled and squinted at me again, tilting his head up and to the right as he stared. “Maybe what I’m attracted… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
“Fractals, therefore, are also taken as a type of art, denoting the nature of the world around us, as well as the… — Tim Clearbrook Copy Share Image
Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people… — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a "real artist"? It means you are spending your time doing the things that matter most… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
People tend to view land art as something that happened at a certain historical moment - like minimal art, which I was… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
“A steampunk nation Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause Our art's official and only partially artificial And our… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia,… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I've been a huge fan of Adele, Sam Smith, and Ed Sheeran, and those amazing artists draw inspiration from their present and… — Calum Scott Copy Share Image
According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power,… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art.… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
“A statue of Arturo Prat, hero of the Chilean Navy, surveyed it all. From under his statue I look up onto those… — Brian Keenan Copy Share Image
Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this… — Jet Li Copy Share Image
I won't forget those kind of things, but I just want to write them down and look at them. It's almost like… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called… — Brenton Thwaites Copy Share Image
I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Neo-Pagan Ten “Commandments” 1. Thou art God/dess. 2. As above, so below; as within so without. 3. Spirit abides in all… — Marian Singer Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director,… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image