Art Quote by James A. Baldwin

We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers…

— Henry Miller

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then…

— George Stillman Hillard

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of…

— Karen DeCrow

It's a mission for me to make sure that philanthropy doesn't feel like a vintage hand-me-down from mom or dad. I want people to…

— Usher

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

— C. S. Lewis

I love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I am compelled…

— Gemma Cairney

“The more helpless she was, the more he would feel compelled to protect her.”

— Anonymous

See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more we vainly…

— Lucretius

I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I wanted to…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

— Lynda Barry

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the…

— Pope Gregory I

Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it…

— Linda Stone