Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas CarlyleIf I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
Marilyn MonroeWhen I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.
Marilyn MonroeI mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.
Christopher HitchensI didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.
Kanye WestI only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.
Charles BukowskiWhen you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.
The WeekndMy stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
Ray BradburyI tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.
Bad BunnyIt’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
Taylor SwiftOne science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander PopePainting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador DaliI kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.
J. ColeWhat is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
George Bernard ShawGood leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.
John C. MaxwellI’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.
Taylor SwiftFrom infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.
Alice WalkerThe thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
Barack ObamaThe day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
Albert CamusA record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
Lady GagaI have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
Alice WalkerMusic is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
Matthew McConaugheyThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya AngelouDisneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt DisneyYes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
Barack ObamaIf you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.
Anthony HopkinsThere are no record companies in Waikiki.
Bruno MarsAll my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie ChaplinYou see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.
Stephen KingThe best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis BaconEvery man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I believe in being an innovator.
Walt DisneyIt is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
Leonardo da VinciA critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
Oscar WildeThe human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon BonaparteYou know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.
Dave GrohlI don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.
David BowieNo better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Oscar WildeBad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.
Oscar WildeWhy did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Tennessee WilliamsI have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
Karl LagerfeldActing is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
George EliotAt the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
Brian EnoPeople who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.
Paul AusterO, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.
Ludwig van BeethovenI am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
Kanye WestKnowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CummingsI am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
Charles BukowskiIt usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.
Steven WrightImagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Albert EinsteinI’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.
David BowieI have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.
David ByrneI enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
Frank OceanPoetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIf you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. NixonThe chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel JohnsonTones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
Ludwig van BeethovenMy songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.
Dolly PartonThose who have been writing literature have not been writing life.
Charles BukowskiAs the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon