I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For me, 'The Raid' was survival horror. It had thriller elements, tension elements, gunfire, martial arts, and action - throw all of… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“... one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist… — Brenda Lee Copy Share Image
“and over our heads will float the bluebird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the… — Ori Hofmekler Copy Share Image
I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
“Art is pleasurable, and that adds value to life. It’s also inspirational and influential. It isn’t the same thing as being the… — Nicole Ciacchella Copy Share Image
It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Firstly, I am not a comedian. I have a sense of doing comedy but I am a character artist. If the character… — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The projects that I've been fortunate enough to do are all projects where I followed my heart. I didn't follow the money… — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Acting is such a high art, and coming from theater, I know how hard it is and respect the craft. I want… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound… — Plato Copy Share Image
The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
“Here, in Lorrain's poisoned little jewel of a tale (“The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate achievement of decadent art is… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
