The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad. It's rough. Artwork is brutal for so many people. They let it happen… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso. — Juliet Stevenson Copy Share Image
“You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I'm comfortable in general - not just comfortable as an artist, but in my skin. — Kodie Shane Copy Share Image
I honestly think if I had been a solo artist, it wouldn't have been as bad. Because I was being compared to… — Jesy Nelson 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
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow… — Tyga Copy Share Image
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to… — Franklin Carmichael Copy Share Image
I am a one-trick pony. If you tell most people to draw a picture of a tree, they'd draw 35 branches and… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
“The thing about being an artist," Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, "is that there are… — Leila Sales 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
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
