Artist Biography Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable. — Lauren Groff

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist. — Harold Rosenberg

I'd rather be hurt all at once for a specific reason, than be hurt slowly every day.
Ashlyn — Kendall Ryan

I'm always confused when people say how much they miss 'Invader Zim' because the show never stopped running in my head, and then I remember everyone else isn't in my head. I try to imagine the world for all those people who don't know what Zim's been up to since the show went off the air and it makes me shudder. How can people live that way? Hopefully this comic helps make the world a better place. — Jhonen Vasquez

Sin doesn't always look sinful to us; sometimes it looks beautiful. That's why we need grace to see sin for what it really is - dark, dangerous, enslaving and destructive. — Paul David Tripp

The day is crisp and clear, almost like every other morning he's taken the same walk in the snow, hiking to the forest and back. — M.C. Frank

If you see the Black Banners coming from Khurasan, go to them immediately, even if you must crawl over ice, because indeed amongst them is the Caliph, Al Mahdi. Then from the direction of the East will emerge black flags. FROM THE HADITH — Charles H. Dyer

I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out of a theater background, and could easily be defined as 'Brechtian.' He was expressionistic in his films, and was an example of those intensely intellectual artists who ended up working for American studios, and was handed the Ladies Home Journal and asked to adapt the stories for the screen. He found ways to use his artistry to make them interesting and nuanced, while critiquing American values in the process. — Todd Haynes

It was hard to get jobs on farms doing wool-classing, but I got them. They had to learn to like a female wool-classer. — Theresa Sjoquist

The social-political future of the United States is one of domination by vast economic interests devoted to ideals of material gain, aimless activity, & physical comfort - interests controlled by shrewd, insensitive, & not often well-bred leaders recruited from the standardised herd through a competition of hard wit & practical craftiness - a struggle for place & power which will eliminate the true & the beautiful as goals, & substitute the strong, the huge, & the mechanically effective. — S.T. Joshi

The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy. — Douglas Southall Freeman

No wise man will wish to bring more long words into the world. But — G.K. Chesterton

I do not think it matters whether one agrees or not as long as ons is forced to think. — Vanessa Bell

Osborne paused. "There is... something else."

Clegg sighed.

"What?"

"Your Wikipedia page."

"What? My-"

"It says you're Prime Minister now."

"Well, it was news to me that I'm not, I can't-"

"Was it one of your staff?"

Silence fell heavily on the room. Clegg tilted his head to one side.

"Are you... what are you..." he began.

"I'm asking because if it was, it could be... serious."

Another pause. This time, Clegg couldn't help but smile in disbelief.

"Are you going to accuse my staff of a constitutional coup for editing Wikipedia? — Tom Black

I think in some ways it's good to have at least one thing for which you could be really immortal, you know? — Christopher Lambert

That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man. — L. Ron Hubbard

But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist. — Diane Wood Middlebrook

When will the human race choose wisely? All know it is just as eventful, if not more so, when the young seek adventure, purpose, and dreams; instead of blaming everyone but themselves if they choose otherwise — Theresa Sjoquist

Mister, I don't want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don't even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I ain't looking for no trouble, Mister. — Bill Hicks

No-one has the right to terminate a person's life with a gun, a knife, or a makutu (spell). — Theresa Sjoquist

In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea. — Edgar Allan Poe