A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
I took what worked for me and found I had a system that others were interested in and seemed to work for… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Growing up, I just always doodled, which is the worst word for it. I would just draw things in class, get yelled… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
Combining a live event with the option of streaming means that everyone can enjoy the beauty, emotion and exuberance of watching their… — Edith Bowman Copy Share Image
“Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting,… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I found very early on when I became a hip-hop artist that I loved telling stories. Actually, when I was trying to… — Ben Drew Copy Share Image
The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials… — Karl Friedrich Schinkel Copy Share Image
I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows.… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
I'm not mannerist. I don't think I'm interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I always say I write because I have questions, not because I have answers. It's true that you begin the conversation -… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You have to be a little bit cautious when the market gets quite strong because there's a tendency to anoint a genius… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new… — Tiffany Hwang Copy Share Image
We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I'm a fashion designer. What I do is artistic, but I'm not an artist because everything I do is destined to be… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
The thing that has helped me the most has been surrounding myself with a strong community of people with common interests and… — Liza Johnson Copy Share Image
A work of art is full of perhapses and maybesos. Where the perhapses are found, something has to be done about it.… — John Marin Copy Share Image
Artists react to tragedy by doing something both as a way for us as artists to process our pain and our grief… — Marc Andreyko Copy Share Image
“They are trying to be significant in their universe—trying to mean something more than a random collision of molecules. Though modern philosophy… — Rory Noland Copy Share Image
We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in… — Natasha Mayers Copy Share Image
I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
“Hence Proust’s assertion that the greatness of works of art has nothing to do with the apparent quality of their subject matter,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Most teachers at the National Academy of Design discouraged students from visiting "291", lest they be influenced by radical American painters such… — Lindsay Pollock Copy Share Image
I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to get to a position where I can feel that, with my art, I'm capable of… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“The painter pondered the mournful puzzle of life demanding to be born and, once born, demanding to be fruitful ... to multiply… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
