Accounts Quote by Angela Carter

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a…

— Anonymous

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he…

— George Eliot

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

— Susan Wiggs

I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all.

— Neve McIntosh

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us…

— Walter Darby Bannard

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is…

— John Maeda

To make art you need to be inspired.

— Greg Lake

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on…

— Meryl Streep

Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative patterns. While…

— Robert Genn

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig.…

— Robert Henri

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

— Seth Godin