William Blake Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero -
The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz -
I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
Victoria Aveyard -
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney -
Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
Nancy Kress -
There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
Nathan Sawaya
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel Barenboim -
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
Damian Woetzel -
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
Nate Lowman -
I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.
Tavi Gevinson
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
Nathan Fillion -
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
Gary Zukav -
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer -
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
Irving Howe
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Small daily happenings make life spectacular.... start enjoying the small things in life!
Andy Rooney -
I'm going to keep pursuing my dream, keep singing and, hopefully, move to L.A.
Katie Stevens -
We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.
Gabrielle Roth -
Art degraded, Imagination denied.
William Blake