“Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Good, well-defined, well-honed art is not a foreign language. You can sell it to people. You just have to move your ego… — Van Hunt Copy Share Image
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Art can retain its value and even make you some money. If you have your iPhone on you - and you probably… — Lara Spencer Copy Share Image
Hosting over 35,000 concerts and festivals each year, Live Nation has the opportunity and responsibility to provide our artists and fans with… — Michael Rapino Copy Share Image
I've always liked playing with somebody else and collaborating, just to get out of my own head all the time. Everybody does,… — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
But for me, true art can't be created by accident. There are boundaries to the reach of algorithms. Limits to what can… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
A lot of the old-school artists didn’t even respect what’s being called freestyle now... any emcee coming off the top of the… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down… — Joseph Furphy Copy Share Image
I hold strongly to my identity as a Chicago artist and want to do whatever I can to participate in creating a… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face… — Andrea Martin Copy Share Image
“ Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
“Cizek had used art as the point of entry of his thinking into a whole new world of education—an avenue that had… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However, practice without true principles is nothing other than… — Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere Copy Share Image
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“The power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Actors are always being asked to speak. Sometimes there is a well-honed script, often there is not. But we are well-practised in… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
When I'm in the audience of Broadway shows, I feel like I'm in the presence of something really special with artists working… — Ethan Slater Copy Share Image
The creatives, they want to connect with people. These artists, the clothing designers, they want to connect with people the same way… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“group of aspiring young Mormon painters who called themselves “art missionaries” arrived from Utah, many to enroll at the Académie Julian. Their… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I usually turn over when ads appear on television. But - very rarely - I am gripped by a particularly beautiful one,… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet… — John Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
“Almost exactly five hundred years ago, a tormented soul named Michelangelo built a very narrow bridge in the middle of the air… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
