If people want insights, if they want to swim in the currents of their own time and share the experiences of their… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
When we are artists, researchers, or writers, we choose what we do with our time, who we talk to. Of course we… — Paola Pivi Copy Share Image
“No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace.… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
“I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be better when you die,”… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have… — Callum Keith Rennie Copy Share Image
. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man… — Plato Copy Share Image
“And does the trial start over again?” asked K., finding it hard to believe. “The trial will always start over again,” said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Even if I weren't learning new roles and getting the opportunity to be coached by incredible people, I still think I would… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The core of every artist, brand, or organization is believability. I believe Basquiat, Kahlo, Mahler, and Hemingway because they stuck to their… — Rod Judkins Copy Share Image
Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
“Don't fret my dear. If art is translation of the ephemeral into observable form, then always remember that it is the translationn… — Jomny Sun Copy Share Image
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For a Christian to say, "I will not have anything to do with the great and worthy works of artists whose lives… — Frank E. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way… — Bad Bunny Copy Share Image
If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
There are two ways. One is to be a puppet, follow the culture, and do whatever they want. That was mentally disturbing… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
“Lyotard remarked that post-Modern artists often function as philosophers. They may deal with issues of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, as many influential… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow,… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't think I realized what was going to be the hardest part of becaming an artist until I dove off the… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The entire 'my art is better than your art' thing really gets under my skin. The fact of the matter is: Your… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image