{"quotes":[{"text":"Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the faithful are the ones who make things out of nothing. Everybody else, they make things out of something, they have materials! But a written work can be done with nothing, it can begin in the soul! A musical piece begins with a harmony in the soul, a sculpture begins with a formless, useless piece of rock chiseled and formed and molded into the thing that was first conceived in the sculptor's heart! A painting can be carried inside the mind for a lifetime, before ever being put onto paper or canvass! And a prayer! A prayer is a thought, a remembrance, a whisper, a communion, that is from the soul going to what cannot be seen, yet it can move mountains! And so I believe that these five things are interrelated, these five kinds of people are kin.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["art","artists","music","painting","prayer","sculpting","writers-on-writing","writing"],"id":789,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Every artist takes their final work to the grave.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["art","artists","death","grave","retirement","work","works","writers"],"id":1014,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"But why? Why do you care about our class’s history?'\t'I just do. Besides, I need something to put on my art-school applications besides ’Locks self in room and draws all day.’ Even art schools won’t take a psychopath.","author":"Natalie Standiford","tags":["artists","college-applications","psycopaths"],"id":2064,"author_id":"Natalie+Standiford"},{"text":"You'll find that great artists don't love, live, fuck or even die like ordinary people. Because they always have their art. It nourishes them more than any connection to people. Whatever human tragedy befalls them, they're never too gutted, because they need only to pour the tragedy into their vat, stir in the other lurid ingredients, blast it over a fire. What emerges will be even more magnificent than if the tragedy had never occurred.","author":"Marisha Pessl","tags":["art","artists","tragedy"],"id":3308,"author_id":"Marisha+Pessl"},{"text":"Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["art","artists","artists-life","coffee","creation","creativity","fiction-writing","hyena","inspiration","novelists","payne","roman-payne","work","writing"],"id":3942,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.","author":"Shah Asad Rizvi","tags":["artist","artists","artists","bachata","baila","bailando","ballerina","ballet","ballet-dancer","ballroom","ballroom-dance","ballroom-dancing","belly-dance","belly-dancer","belly-dancing","bhangra","boogie-woogie","choreographer","choreography","contemporary-dance","dance","dance-academy","dance-class","dance-costume","dance-festival","dance-floor","dance-life","dance-photography","dance","dance","dance-shoes","dance-show","dance-studio","dance-wear","dancehall-dance","dancer","dancing","danza","disco-dance","disco-dancing","electronic-dance","figure-skater","figure-skating","flamenco","folk-dance","freestyle","gymnastics","ice-skating","inspirational","jazz-dance","kathak","kizomba","latin-dance","life","mambo","modern-dance","motion","motivational","movement","movements","philosopher","philosophy","poet","poetry","quote","of-the-day","quotes","raqs-sharqi","reggae-dance","reggaeton","rumi","salsa","salsa-dance","samba","shah-asad-rizvi","street-dance","sway","swing-dance","tango","tap-dance","word-porn","words-of-wisdom","writer","writing","zouk","zumba-dance"],"id":4400,"author_id":"Shah+Asad+Rizvi"},{"text":"Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.","author":"Shah Asad Rizvi","tags":["artist","artists","artists","bachata","baila","bailando","ballerina","ballet","ballet-dancer","ballroom","ballroom-dance","ballroom-dancing","belly-dance","belly-dancer","belly-dancing","bhangra","boogie-woogie","choreographer","choreography","contemporary-dance","dance","dance-academy","dance-class","dance-costume","dance-festival","dance-floor","dance-life","dance-photography","dance","dance","dance-shoes","dance-show","dance-studio","dance-wear","dancehall-dance","dancer","dancing","danza","disco-dance","disco-dancing","electronic-dance","figure-skater","figure-skating","flamenco","folk-dance","freestyle","gymnastics","ice-skating","inspirational","jazz-dance","kathak","kizomba","latin-dance","life","mambo","modern-dance","motion","motivational","movement","movements","philosopher","philosophy","poet","poetry","quote","of-the-day","quotes","raqs-sharqi","reggae-dance","reggaeton","rumi","salsa","salsa-dance","samba","shah-asad-rizvi","street-dance","sway","swing-dance","tango","tap-dance","word-porn","words-of-wisdom","writer","writing","zouk","zumba-dance"],"id":4400,"author_id":"Shah+Asad+Rizvi"},{"text":"Art doesn’t bare itself to just anyone, but to believers called artists.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["art","artistry","artists","creating-art","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":6638,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"When Verlaine and Rimbaud were young,” [Snyder] said, they were protesting the iron-grip bourgeois rationality had on all aspects of nineteenth-century French culture— the manners, the view of reality, and the exclusion of ‘the wild’ from public life. Rationality in business and society were dominant values. ‘Deranging the senses’ was one strategy artists like Verlaine and Rimbaud employed to break free of that.“Today,” he continued, “the bourgeoisie is sociopathic, overindulged, distracted, spoiled beyond measure, and unable to restrain its gluttony, even in the face of pending planetary destruction. In the face of such a threat, it has, by necessity, become the responsibility of the artist to model health and sanity.","author":"Peter Coyote","tags":["aesthetics","artists","poetry","rebellion"],"id":6729,"author_id":"Peter+Coyote"},{"text":"The value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["art","artists","depends","spiritual","spiritual","value"],"id":7372,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":656,"pages":66,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}