Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
“Art value always goes up once the artist’s associated with fucked-up things such as cutting off his own ear like Van Gogh,… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Music and fashion go hand in hand. I think music inspires all types of arts; it inspires life, emotion, mood, and all… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“To the extent that self-expression does broadcast and reinforce a person's character, it clarifies a link between art, eccentricity, and mental illness.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“You know," Kavita begins, "I think I can pick out my own furniture. I am an artist after all. I do have… — Carroll Bryant Copy Share Image
Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her, and I could… — Bebe Rexha Copy Share Image
“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We love trans women; all of us know that drag wouldn't be an art form without trans women. I know that, RuPaul… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
I knew so many people were coming up to me because they knew who I was, not because they were fans of… — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
Many people had identified silat for its dance-like movements, for its beauty and its grace. But 'The Raid' shows it in a… — Iko Uwais Copy Share Image
“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
There is none of that feeling about art that you meet everywhere in Europe. There you will hear people say, 'Oh, you… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
“He connected with the storytelling in the manuscript painting, he said, because it was clear to him that this artist, working hundreds… — Christian Madsbjerg Copy Share Image
“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay… — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
“This is Unique !! Shopping malls working with one side of our needs, material satisfaction but here @ K11 there is a… — Baris Gencel Copy Share Image
“The really significant education in thinking that we're supposed to get at a [liberal arts college] isn't really about the capacity to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Everything that I spent my entire life dedicated to, which is this art of mentalism, of magic... I don't see it and… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
“My reading and studying and retellings of old stories didn't do anything except help me think better. I was at least thoughtful.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I'm kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning… The creative process shrivels in… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is… — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
“As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
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