When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York. Laurie Simmons artartistattach share on social
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. Larry Niven artbarneform Change image and share on social
Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim. That Gehry is a great artist I have no doubt, but talent and determination are no warrant against confusion, nor are they a guaranty to produce great art. Leon Krier artartistawe share on social
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. Oscar Niemeyer architectureartemotion Change image and share on social
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. Oriana Fallaci artbearburden Change image and share on social
I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it. Lara Spencer absolutelyamericanart Change image and share on social
I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting. Lily Cole affectartcommercially share on social
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. Laurence Housman alternativeartcause share on social
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. Laura Riding artcalleasy share on social
If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope. Orhan Pamuk artcraftfeel share on social