There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t… — Mirka Mora Copy Share Image
If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he… — Ben Gazzara Copy Share Image
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence… — Peter London Copy Share Image
Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“For the fact is that neither the grammarian nor any other person of skill ever makes a mistake in so far as… — Plato Copy Share Image
I don't care about being a pioneer. People act like it would be cool to be a pioneer. I'm okay to be… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
“Artists often collect. Sometimes compulsively. They hang on to things. They don’t want to let go. Like paintings. I don’t want to… — Celia Rees Copy Share Image
Juno: Your little girlfriend gave me the stinkeye in art class yesterday. Paulie: Katrina's not my girlfriend alright? And I doubt she… — Juno (The Movie Copy Share Image
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York, in the '70s, artists were certainly divided about the Andy Warhol persona, and about the… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
I have an art magazine about drag called 'Velour,' named after myself, and I have a monthly show called 'Nightgowns' that curates… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable… — William Butler Copy Share Image
When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“I do not say that artists cannot be seers, inspired: that the awen cannot come upon them, and the god speak through… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Maybe now if you're not an exhibitionist you're private. Or maybe it's just that for a lot of people - sometimes in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“The truth is: I did want to be my dad's poem. I wanted to be his drawing, his novella, his most refined… — Alysia Abbott Copy Share Image
“You defined yourself by your enemy’s reaction. Conflict was the media bait—hence, now, the political chum. The new politics was not the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my… — Edi Rama Copy Share Image
Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
I was at Edinburgh doing history of art, Spanish and Arabic. I was originally supposed to do Italian instead of Arabic but… — Sophie Cookson Copy Share Image
The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured… — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our… — Dorothy Norman Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, my career as a model is based around glamour or creating a fantasy world. That in itself is not a bad… — Coco Rocha Copy Share Image
The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature… — Novalis Copy Share Image
When an artist wants to paint a painting, they have all those things in their head that they want to portray on… — Justin Verlander Copy Share Image
Actually, the whole thing of being a solo artist has been such a learning process for me. Since I departed from my… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
