Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
If my extensive collection of all 53 Now That’s What I Call Music compilations is any indication, I am both qualified and… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
I don't believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I was born in Indiana and raised in Oregon and there's a strong sense of individualism, particularly in Oregon. And my mom… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it… — Melanie Fiona Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will draw people and they will move away too quickly for me to finish what I wanted, and it is… — Jason Polan Copy Share Image
The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't… — Shirley Manson 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
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the… — Bridget Riley 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
I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
“But I think it will bring you something besides this, something that is the knowledge of real strength in art: not that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, create music and put it out on the Internet. If you do this consistently, your fan base will… — Russ Copy Share Image
I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new… — Joe Madureira Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do… — Romero Britto Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to… — Leo Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
“The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It's like art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he can paint the right way, before he goes putting… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
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