One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It's like a window and… — Diana Ossana Copy Share Image
In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build… — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat,… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
“Your heart tells you your life path, goals, and passions. The heart has a passion so deep it burns within you like… — Sarah Christine Lalonde Copy Share Image
Not to name names, but a lot of pop female artists you see, they don't write their own songs. Lot of top… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
In my thirties, I have felt a greater urgency to make art that highlights what it feels like to be racialized, likely… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I'm an advocate of all mediums - it's a larger canvas for us as artists - but we have to keep in… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“His fame as an artist requires very tender care. Look what a mask of diplomacy is painstakingly formed by the whole of… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a… — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
As an artist, what you do is you put out material constantly. Whether it's films, or TV shows, music... and you know,… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
As an artist, I am here to get involved in meaningful films. But that does not mean only films like 'Arabikkadha' should… — Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Machines taking over jobs - it's the history of civilization. Replacing farm animals, old forms of manual labor, now taking over small,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“It’s of some interest that the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It’s… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
Regardless of its purpose, the humpback-whale song is the most complex piece of nonhuman composition on earth. Whether it's art, prayer, or… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films... that's… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
“A powerfully imagined event can evoke the same emotions as a real event. Few artists would contradict this, and yet there no… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main… — George Lois Copy Share Image
I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
It's the art of letting go: no longer hanging onto the past and looking forward to the future. But don't think it… — Amaya Copy Share Image
Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself… — Anthony Joshua Copy Share Image
Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you… — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image