“I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I graduated from Wesleyan University with a b.a. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I am a terrible chef; I'm not a good cook. I don't have the talent, the patience, the desire even to cook… — Philip Rosenthal Copy Share Image
He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
“If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they’ve gotten good at it, and they’re… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I do think that as an artist, I crave privacy because that is when you get to really check in with yourself.… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages,… — Susanna Phillips Copy Share Image
“Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When it comes to best new artist or album or song of the year, yeah, it's very rare that you see someone… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside… — Zhuge Liang Copy Share Image
I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Until 'Lovecraft Country' feels like a show where people go, 'Is that how the world used to be?' we do need to… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has… — Candida Hofer Copy Share Image
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To Vincent, his art was a record of his life more true, more revealing (“how deep—how infinitely deep”) even than the storm… — Steven Naifeh Copy Share Image
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil… — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
There are certain figures in the arts who, although minor in accomplishment and equivocal in their aesthetic influence, are so completely representative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He… — Richard Estes Copy Share Image
Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
“The art critic and philosopher John Berger once said that we like to look at animals because it reminds us of the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“French Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin would never have become Gauguin if he had not followed this principle. He was a bank employee… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his personality. He expresses his personality indirectly through concentrating upon a… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Art is subjective. Just because an executive, or even if five executives say that they don't like the idea and that they… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
![“I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents of each chapter came first or the artist came first in making the decision was different in each case.” quote by Yasumasa Morimura](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e57/yasumasa-morimura-27200_art_i-planned-the-exhibition-so-that-it-beco_264843.jpg)
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