“Hidden in dreams are arts that haven’t been crafted, and songs that haven’t been chanted.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Art supersedes knowledge written in books. Art is the muse. Art is magic settling upon your he[art] like dust.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Artistic expression is about freedom, not about imprisoning yourself as an author within the boundaries of your mother tongue.” — A.M. Bakalar Copy Share Image
“Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Men who create art feel a zillion times happier than men who create wealth. Art lives on but wealth diminishes.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“It should be the ambition of every true artist to transform wounds and traumas into masterpieces.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics. — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter. — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil… — Gordon Gee Copy Share Image
I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“I knew I could not sketch a woman, in all her natural inner beauty. I may have the perfect skill, but putting… — Deepak Ranjan Copy Share Image
I fuse light and shadow with aperture; I freeze a moment with speed; I let the unseen seen, the seen unseen with… — Ony Ony Copy Share Image
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
“Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as… — Clive James Copy Share Image
There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
“An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The Nineties was such an incredible period. There was this real sense of community and such a uniqueness to it. There were… — Edward Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
I love writing and the little filmmaking I have attempted, but comics is the means of artistic expression that feels most comfortable… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public… — Pat Schneider Copy Share Image
“Grief needs an outlet. Creativity offers one. Some psychiatrists see mourning and creativity as the perfect marriage, the thought processes of one… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Dear Jeff, I happened to see the Channel 7 TV program "Hooray for Hollywood" tonight with the segment on Blade Runner .… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“We do not use writing exclusively to attain perspective upon our self-referential human existence. We dedicate our essayistic existence to witnessing the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A person writes similar to how a blind person uses brail. We grope along the palpable corridors of the mind’s organic texture… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Language is an exploratory tool. Linking observations and thoughts in an orderly fashion is the business of a philosopher. A writer is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“For if freethinkers did not have a political platform, they nevertheless agreed on a wide range of social, cultural, and artistic concerns,… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Human artistic expression is blessedly, refreshingly nonessential. That's exactly why I love it so much. [...] The fact that I get to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“...Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Unique is what one person does alone. What is not unique is what others have to collaborate on.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization. — Igor Youskevitch Copy Share Image
For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image