If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
You just have to work really hard and throw everything into it. ... It's really hard to be an artist, and even… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The timelessness is completely important. It's partly about removing things that would become in some way nostalgic. There aren't really any markers… — Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Copy Share Image
Artists should re-emphasize performance and de-emphasize recording. You always make more money if you have a healthy performing life than you will… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the… — Victor Turner Copy Share Image
My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
As an artist development platform, we've proven that all the work done behind the scenes at American Idol, along with surviving the… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
“I suppose that really I had a training or education not so very different from a lot of other artists and illustrators… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The really cool thing about reggae music is that I can get away with saying spiritual things as a reggae influenced artist… — Dominic Balli Copy Share Image
Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if… — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“To a very strange lizard, found by the gardener of the Belvedere, he [Leonardo] fastened some wings with a mixture of quicksilver… — Girogio Vasari Copy Share Image
Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“So what's the point of longing for a new, monumental category hidden somewhere in the non-Western discourse? On the contrary, shouldn't we… — Ralph Ubl Copy Share Image
We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
I construct myself and do things how I want to do them, because your artistry is a very precious thing - it's… — Tash Sultana Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
If you think of a solo artist, you normally know them by their name; you don't normally describe their kind of music.… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
“HENRY JAMES once proposed three questions you could productively put to an artist’s work. The first two were disarmingly straightforward: What was… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I think the defect actually lies with male artists. Male artists often border on idiocy, while it's important for a woman not… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A lot of people love Tarantino’s films because they’re spectacular, they’re beautiful, they’re wonderful. He hires the best group of artists -… — Demian Bichir Copy Share Image
It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark.… — RM Copy Share Image
We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas -… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. The fools who write articles about me… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything?… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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