“Depending on one’s point of view, Hagakure represents a mystical beauty intrinsic to the Japanese aesthetic experience, and a stoic but profound… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
“It’s up to the writer and the artist to give voice to these people. There are two impulses in art: one is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
I think anyone who is an artist or writer or owns their own business or whatever can agree that when you come… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a rebellious artist, a lot of people have said that about me because I came from… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
Be careful what you wish for, I guess. I believe - this will sound bloated, but I believe it - that true… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So,… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow… — Mika Copy Share Image
Things take a little more time when you're not doing really obvious sales. I don't have any nudity in my videos, or… — Gavin DeGraw Copy Share Image
An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
I went to an art school and you learn very quickly there that you're only as good as your next idea, not… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
An album for me as a teenager in the '70s was a fully formed concept. It was a body of work from… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty,… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I've been a visual artist my entire life, so translating music to imagery has always come naturally to me. Tycho is an… — Tycho Copy Share Image
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of the things I've had to struggle with is that part of what people find critically and curatorially questionable in my… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
So-called leaders aren't doing anything, so it's become the job of artists like me. We have to get on the front lines… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
“Favorite painting...?" "Painting? Odalisque," I said. "Really.His non-nude nude. Interesting." It was,to me. Edward's most famous painting of Diana is Troie ,… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
The thing is, if people get it right away, I just don't think you're making art. I think you're making something they're… — Lori Petty Copy Share Image
I deteriorate. I might tell you something one day and then something else another day. You fold in on yourself and that's… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
It is a painting that exposes in oils what Chekhov so often did in print: sunlight mocking a dark isolation of the… — Alexandra Johnson Copy Share Image
No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“You draw something...and you get nothing. The you do the same thing again, but this time you get a star and are… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics!… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
