“From a letter to Barrett H.Clark, 4 May 1918(LL,II,pp.204-5): "my attitude to subjects and expressions, the angles of vision, my methods of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there -… — Waldemar Januszczak Copy Share Image
Artists and the traditional record company model are at odds. The music business has notoriously taken from the artist. That shouldn't be… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
Every now and then there might be a beat someone turned down that I have as an unused beat. But everything that… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My role as an artist helps me tremendously in breaking down each story. Pacing, layout, movement - having drawn a few thousand… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
“Love is an act of art ... It is this creative quality of love, that it seeks to reshape the world for… — Rod Dubey Copy Share Image
I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have… — Marla Sokoloff Copy Share Image
It's always an amazing gift to be able to work with storytellers who 'get it' and who can not only draw anything… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
“Art can certainly be an important pathway to discovery. It encourages us to be spontaneous, playful, and curious and to see what… — Robi Ludwig Copy Share Image
I look for roles that resonate with me these days. While I love putting out just fabulous entertainment, I think now as… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
You don't spend every day saying, "Gosh! That's so beautiful." Sometimes you look at an object more attentively and see it anew.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very… — Lauren Worsham Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a creator, and I think that will always shine through in any medium that I decide to… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
I'm living as an artist, and that's a staggering feeling, it's a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
That's what I like about the idea of the aesthetic experience, the idea of both enjoying looking at works of art and… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen… — Maxfield Parrish Copy Share Image
Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music “for”… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
You can go to places in Africa and Asia and find Marley graffiti. In the slums of Nairobi, you see his lyrics… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The art world is a bit smaller than the music world, and the music world is a bit smaller than the cinema… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson 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
Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are… — Victor Pinchuk Copy Share Image
I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's… — Pharoah Sanders Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day… — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
I'm far from being a consummate artist. I mean, this is just my first album, and the work is very new. I'm… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I've gone to Yaddo many times, I've worked at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center for Scholars and Artists in Bellagio. That these are… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The language of images [of inner-oriented artists] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more… — Kenneth Coutts-Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge… — Olivo Barbieri Copy Share Image