I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don’t have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic. – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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 visual art. – Sia Furler
For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one – reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new – that’s my prayer. – Sonu Nigam
The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art – the great structure – in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art. – Walter Gropius
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. – Simon Schama
I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention. – Sam Taylor-Wood
But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It’s not about marketing. – Warren Cuccurullo
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. – Walter Pater
Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport – we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym. – Yana Kudryavtseva
You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment. – Todd Haynes
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. – Voltaire
My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do something, too. So I’ve just started using her same materials – a lot of crayons, a lot of sparkle, charcoal, pencils, markers and glue. – Stone Gossard
Many artists who don’t go off to art school come to New York. It’s about what you learn when you’re here. – Urs Fischer
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter. – Sufjan Stevens
I’ve been writing for a long time, and I’ve loved comic books for a long time – forever – but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It’s been an interesting transition. – Yuri Lowenthal
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art – sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts – as inseparable components of a new architecture. – Walter Gropius
Because I’m an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That’s what really art history is. You’re looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it. – Teju Cole
I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I’m passionate about. – Tia Mowry
It’s too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world. – Thom Mayne
I had an art teacher who’s the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That’s where she had gone and kept raving over their art department. – Sela Ward
I grew up in an artists’ community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art. – Vin Diesel
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. – Tina Weymouth
I personally want to work with great directors and great actors. My thing is about being inspired. You want money to come, but money doesn’t always come with great art. At the end of the day, it’s about being satisfied with yourself as a human being. It’s important to me to try to make that happen. – Scott Cohen
