I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I… — David Small Copy Share Image
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists,… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in… — Terrence Rafferty Copy Share Image
Music needs to have a real sacred setting for people to understand it. You've got to start things off with friends who… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise... Knowing that is hugely… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I think I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
I really did feel like I was surrounded by family members. I didn't have a dad, and I remember there were all… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
When I am working a book, I go through my library and take a look through some of the great cartoonists of… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The music business is suffering because fewer artists are being invested in. Labels are putting in less money, taking fewer risks and… — Tom Silverman Copy Share Image
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. ... Singing is… — Usher Copy Share Image
I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
I've worked with a hundred of the biggest artists in the world, from Madonna to Mariah Carey, and he [Michael Jackson] is… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
I haven't figured out how to do anything yet besides recording music - I don't even entirely know how to do that.… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
A lot of us New Yorkers have bought apartments or bought lofts or are struggling to do it because at least that… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
“Art is not a metonym for truth telling. All art is a form of a falsifying; otherwise why would anyone need art… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The saddest instance of the lack of real freedom, arising from the lack of real knowledge, is revealed to us in Leo… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I always want to be doing both to travel as a teacher and lecturer, and to be a musician. I think in… — Jonathan Batiste Copy Share Image
Record industry's not so much against artists, but certain people are just wicked people that sit up in the industry who go… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
Over the years, I developed an extreme hostility towards the non-profit art organization gulag. I formed the opinion that it's actually a… — Mark Flood Copy Share Image
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I started blogging because I didn't know if I wanted to be an artist. I wanted to talk to other people online… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
There is no question that the US market is the hardest to break into. I believe that the reason for this primarily… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
The urgency for me is to hurry up and become visible enough to either influence or shame other artists or corporations into… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Going to the office of some stranger and waiting in a line, in a hallway, with five other guys who look just… — Thomas McDonell Copy Share Image
I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
My Picassos and Ferraris - those are kind of just toys. Those aren't the things that matter. What matters in the car… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
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