Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. — Pablo Picasso
My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen. — Vincent Van Gogh
My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story. — Johnny Depp
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context. — Stephen Covey
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. — Tristan Tzara
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. — Henri Matisse
Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear. — Kat Von D
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit. — Mark Rothko
Art is a line around your thoughts. — Gustav Klimt
Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal. — Jim Rohn
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. — Mark Rothko
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. — Tristan Tzara
Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination. — Tim Burton
This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is. — Bill T. Jones
Every artist writes his own autobiography. — Havelock Ellis
I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life. — D.T. Suzuki
Art is the colors and textures of your imagination. — Meghan Trainor
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. — Henri Matisse
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. — Sherwood Anderson
I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls. — Meher Baba
When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person. — Kody Chamberlain
Art Journal Image Quotes
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.
Journal Writing Quotes
I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers. — Taylor Swift
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing. — Bob Schieffer
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. — Shannon Alder
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over. — Hunter S. Thompson
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused. — Joe Klein
My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either. — Kevin Henkes
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I have. — Tucker Carlson
The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later. — William Jackson
I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. — Taylor Swift
My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism. — Tim Cahill
Journaling Quotes
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all — Lala Lajpat Rai
Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine! — Benito Mussolini
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. — Malcolm X
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. — George Orwell
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote. — Glenn Greenwald
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously. — Hunter S. Thompson
If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased. — Walter Cronkite
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? — Hunter S. Thompson
Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations. — Joseph Pulitzer
Artwork Quotes
I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. — Leonid Afremov
They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork. — Lil Wayne
Unfortunately, the general interest in art among the Japanese is very low compared to that of Western countries. I would love to be able to correct that by bringing many more pieces of interesting artwork to Japan. — Yusaku Maezawa
I began collecting artwork as a way to help young artists to promote their work as well as to increase awareness of contemporary art among the younger generation. — Yusaku Maezawa
I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that even while napping, I construct and reconstruct various images. — Yayoi Kusama
I could never live without artwork. It's a constant inspiration. — Narciso Rodriguez
I would love to be able to share my artwork with as many people as possible so that I can help spread an appreciation for art in general. — Yusaku Maezawa
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable, objective, non-judgmental guides to matters you need to reconsider or develop further. — David Bayles
People who have ordered my pieces to be removed should have asked themselves before if they were artworks or vandalism. — Invader
I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book. — Chris Raschka
Art Therapy Quotes
It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit. — Robert Johnson
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one. — Michiko Kakutani
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy. — Germaine Greer
In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily. — Derren Brown
Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position. — James Hillman
With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami. — Connie Sellecca
The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions. — Harriet B. Braiker
I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet and more of my therapy than anything, but yeah, it was the one thing in life that I've had, art and music. — DJ Ashba
Music is an art that goes well beyond science. Proof can be found in the huge amount of studies that have been carried out throughout the world based on music-therapy and the important results achieved. — Andrea Bocelli
Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it. — Nick Bantock
Journalism Quotes
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. — Hunter S. Thompson
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise. — Robert Scheer
One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. — Sayings
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph. — Tom Brokaw
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost. — Napoleon Bonaparte
In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth. — Jared Kushner
Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful. — Amy Goodman
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. — Christiane Amanpour
I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt. —
Visual Art Quotes
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design. — Massimo Vignelli
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. — Steven Pinker
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary. — Barbara Kruger
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age. — Marshall McLuhan
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life. — Steven Spielberg
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy. — Walt Disney
I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not? — Storm Thorgerson
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. — Jerry Saltz
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. — Julia Morgan
I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues. — Mona Hatoum
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues. — Mona Hatoum
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. — Cyril Connolly
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on. — Harrison Salisbury
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. — Barry Commoner
Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces. — Anthony Shadid
I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art. — Bob Schieffer
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid. — Francoise Gilot
Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see. Focus on what you think you need to find in your art. — Kay WalkingStick
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism. — Dick Schaap
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art. — Gay Talese
I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper. — Dave Eggers
Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art — Dan Rather
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt. — Joseph Addison
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful. — Julian Assange
I think America is really well-positioned, because we do train people to be creative and sometimes resist authority, which helps in being an innovator. I think you're going to see for the next phase of the revolution all sorts of wonderful ways of connecting art and literature and journalism into new forms of digital expression. — Walter Isaacson
Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior. — Hayden Christensen
I think it's a real shame so many schools have taken out the hands-on classes. Art, music, auto mechanics, cooking, sewing, these are all things that can turn into jobs. You know, wood shop, steel shop, welding. These are all things that can turn into great careers, get kids interested. Things they can do with other students. Other things for our word thinkers: journalism clubs, drama clubs. — Temple Grandin
Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your way of looking at things within very narrow boundaries or else you'll offend someone. Certainly one of the purposes of journalism is to challenge just that way of thinking, and certainly one of the purposes of criticism is to break boundaries, that's also one of the purposes of art. — Roger Ebert
I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist. — Jeff Smith
Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events." — Mahatma Gandhi
Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés. — Richard Summerbell
Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought. — Tim LaHaye
The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning. — Richard Misrach
A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art. — Hallie Burnett
I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman. — Angelina Jolie
Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art. — Jeanette Winterson
The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo. — Derek Tangye
Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism? — Sherwood Anderson
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature. — Rainer Maria Rilke
In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art. — Bill Kovach
The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal. — Joshua Rogers
Art is art, and journalism is journalism. — Lance Reddick
Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals. — Ambrose Bierce
Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that. — Stig Dagerman
Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it. — Henry R. Luce
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television. — Dan Rather
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