Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was in the writers' room, all these writers were like, "Ugh, another star that they gave a writing-producing credit to."… — Lori Petty Copy Share Image
It simply becomes more and more difficult as you move further away from your heyday, music being the only format where you're… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday… — Grant Wood Copy Share Image
Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him.… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him.… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
A painter's hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my… — Ray Toro Copy Share Image
The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never… — Augustus John Copy Share Image
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands... — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
