The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The difference between email being identified as an art or a science is truly an individual decision based on the impact that… — Jeanniey Mullen Copy Share Image
Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
If you want to make a difference with art, which is a motive I perceive as questionable, then the single most stupid… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
“Any form of art can only develop by means of single mutations by individual creators. If only traditional conventions are used an… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value.… — Jason Ralph Copy Share Image
“..:Putting on appereances is like painting a house without primer. The paint will deffenetly peel off and sooner than later and will… — Rafael Garcia Copy Share Image
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how… — Reed Hundt Copy Share Image
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Sometimes diaspora art expresses a longing for home, and frequently it tries to construct a collective identity out of its mostly heterogeneous… — Sieglinde Lemke Copy Share Image
“Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
The arts investigate the properties of the world by playing with materials - such as stone, paint, fabric, synthetic substances, the human… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
You can simulate perfection, but it's not the same. Some one can do a copy of Rembrandt, but it's not a Rembrandt.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I like Cung. He's a good guy and a good martial artist. He doesn't sell a fight very well, but he looks… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished,… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I tear my heart open I sow myself shut and my weakness is that I care to much and my scars remind… — Papa Roach Copy Share Image
I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands.… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
“...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an artist should do everything by himself… — JR Copy Share Image
Any art that you are playing based on effort, loses something. I think that most of the time it should be something… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. To make it about the… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“Do not expect redemption if you enter the world of art. Redemption is death to art. Tranquillity is the poison the artist… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
