#art

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#childhood #cuban #daily #daily news #during

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#baby #companions #free #good #good teachers

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#cannot #deals #does #fiction #medium

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe. ↗

— Philip Guston

#archaic #brains #forms #hands #heart

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#assignment #become #being #creative #drawing

You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#advantage #art #being #cheap #culture

I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#experiences #good #had #i #inspiring

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#everybody #huge #life #part #plays

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#character #come #i #more #most

So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#canadians #grounded #important #invention #key