“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
Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
We create these walls between fact and fiction, but often the difference between the two is as little as that between a… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads… — Robert Venosa Copy Share Image
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life. Everything great that has come into… — Matt Sorum Copy Share Image
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I was at a time of my life of making choices, I suppose: am I a writer, am I a visual artist?… — David Toop Copy Share Image
In visual art it's better once to see, than one hundred times to hear. — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination. — Barbara Januszkiewicz Copy Share Image
Art is a funny thing. It's a communicative medium. It really is, and it works outside of literature, the movies, stage, it… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing. — Deanna Petherbridge Copy Share Image
I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of… — Steve Mann Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people:… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a… — Tomie dePaola Copy Share Image
I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
