“A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.” ThinkingArtistAnimalHip HopSymbolsHipsHopsFurRegisterStatus SymbolHip Hop Artist Author:Tommy Lee
“I don't know what I'd do with my life if it wasn't for animation.' I guess I would be an artist, or do something with animals. I have a passion for animals. Maybe I would've become a veternarian.” IfsKnowsWould BeArtistPassionAnimalAnimation Author:Andreas Deja
“It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.” PeopleEnoughHandsLightArtistLinesDarkAnimalResponsibilityKnownCreativeToo MuchHand In HandCreative ArtCreative Artists Author:Edward Albee
“The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.” MenEyeAgeArtistAnimalHabitCivilizationClothesPriestsBankersDwellingBourgeois Author:Honore de Balzac
“Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.” WantedSchoolArtistNamesAnimalTeacher Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
“'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.” HumansBodyAmericaBeautifulDesireArtistAnimalPowerfulAirPerformancesHorseDifficultyMusicalNarrativeFulfillmentLatinLatin AmericaSuspendedDebutUnderwaterHumans And Animals Author:Mark Doty
“There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into the big subjects: love, family, other animals, the nature of creativity. It is sublime. It's also very funny. Haunting and haunted, Hold Still is the memoir of an artist that is art itself.” ArtStillsBookBigsArtistAnimalCreativitySubjectsMemoirSublimeInquiryHauntingFamily Love Author:Melissa Holbrook Pierson
“The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.” RealUsedArtistActorsAnimalPersonalityToughCome UpDesignerFamiliarityTough Things Author:Rick Heinrichs