The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm aware of what I am, but I focus so much on myself as a musician and as an artist that I… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
I am very fascinated by the idea of hyperbole in subject matter as well as production. I like the idea of going… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch.… — Richard Huelsenbeck Copy Share Image
Some artists, such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean I'll just say to Jack, "Let's let the next… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media?… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Before I think we was emcees, we was more or less narrators too. Because if you look at the early '80s hip… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“Get to know yourself and your intuition more. Don't be afraid to meet your shadow but strive to become a better person… — R.P. Heaven Copy Share Image
You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
What interested me the most was that when I [traveled to Europe] I knew what Joseph Beuys was doing, he knew what… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Basically, the prosecutor who led case against me and that administration were trying to say that an actor can be held responsible… — Harry Reems Copy Share Image
One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
As far as trying to make it terms of social hierarchy or status and all that in art and music - I've… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Learning how to shine a pair of shoes to me was like if you could do, you were like you were on… — Willie Herron Copy Share Image
“This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory… — Grant H. Kester Copy Share Image
In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first novel a friend told me I should apply for a grant from the government that was… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Some things I won't do for any amount of money. That's so demoralizing and goes against every principle that I hold. It's… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
![“I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out of a theater background, and could easily be defined as 'Brechtian.' He was expressionistic in his films, and was an example of those intensely intellectual artists who ended up working…” quote by Todd Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a42/todd-haynes-2626_american-values_i-know-a-bit-about-his-sirk-life-but-it_1285949.jpg)
![“What interested me the most was that when I [traveled to Europe] I knew what Joseph Beuys was doing, he knew what I was doing, and we both, we just started to talk. How did I know what Daniel Buren was doing, and to an extent, he knew exactly what I was doing? How did everybody know? It's an…” quote by Lawrence Weiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/de8/lawrence-weiner-17466_artist_what-interested-me-the-most-was-that-whe_152283.jpg)
![“He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or…” quote by John Constable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/df3/john-constable-11301_appearance_he-the-artist-ought-to-have-these-powerf_795848.jpg)
