Artists tend to be people of strong character and opinion. Often they are dismissed in our culture if they don't fit a… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Every dream, every vision is a masterpiece canvas on the wall of our minds. So as artists we should make an effort… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“The transposition of two Letters by five placeings will be sufficient for 32 Differences [and] by this Art a way is opened,… — George B. Dyson Copy Share Image
If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or… — Mae Martin Copy Share Image
I want to bring Americans into some experiences they ordinarily would not consider. Experiences in Latin America, people in Latin America, I… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
I'm constantly learning as a songwriter, so naturally that makes you grow as an artist. But I also think the more time… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. It’s a term that does not relate to modern… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids,… — Chingy Copy Share Image
“One real difference between art and craft: with craft, perfection is possible. In that sense the Western definition of craft closely matches… — David Bayles and Ted Orland Copy Share Image
I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of… — Bohuslav Martinu Copy Share Image
“The mysterious quality of artworks is a signal of the mysterious quality of objects in general. Beauty is a secret that we… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don't know how to market your music, you get involved… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
If the global art market was a person, it would be a cunning, sneaky, greedy, materialistic person. A person with a driving,… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I know I am a human being. I can give myself to one year for a project. That is why I say… — Tehching Hsieh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
Before I think we was emcees, we was more or less narrators too. Because if you look at the early '80s hip… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
It's really amazing that I was discovered and that I've been given these great opportunities to travel the world and work with… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
If somebody's getting depressed in life, I would say, 'Look at me'. I've got here believing in me. Sometimes, things do not… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
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