The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But aesthetic value does not rise from the work's apparent ability to predict a future: we do not admire Cézanne because of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Two main groups like to drop the readymade bomb—galleries and art historians. Galleries love to drop the Duchamp brand because dealers can… — Paddy Johnson Copy Share Image
THE PATH IS exceedingly vast. From ancient times to the present day, even the greatest sages were unable to perceive and comprehend… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In my opinion in art nothing can go too far as long as you don't physically hurt people or animals. Art is… — Tom Six Copy Share Image
I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an… — Jennifer Nettles Copy Share Image
I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
“They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Far as I knew, closest she'd gotten to art was a drafting table and dressing mannequins in store windows, and the closest… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“HIPPOCRATIC OATH, n. A promise that mainly pleases the prof: “I swear by Apollo Healer, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, and… — Jonas Koblin Copy Share Image
“Woman with known intent intending to explore Woman with her senses on the edge edging for some more..." From my poem, "Known… — Clarissa Clemens Copy Share Image
In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Objective art is just the opposite. The man has nothing to throw, he is utterly empty, absolutely clean. Out of this silence,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My musical influences are Nicki Minaj, of course. She is the Queen of Rap. She paved the way for a lot of… — Rubi Rose Copy Share Image
“I think of published poets that you could know of...I think [Rainer Maria Rilke] probably has the most great published poems of… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask,… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I enjoyed playing the actor. I stepped away from beer culture and from sport culture, and I was like, well, if you… — Jacob Elordi Copy Share Image
For years, I survived as an artist on grants and touring as a dancer with dance companies, and I was living underground… — Ron Ben-Israel Copy Share Image
My ad-hoc empirical formula is that wherever you grow a lot of rice, there is a lot of art developing as well.… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned… — Gabriel Macht Copy Share Image
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Photography isn't for people to take pictures of beautiful people or things. It's for capturing raw emotions in the eyes of the… — Jillian Rowe Copy Share Image