A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
There's no right way. There's no measurement system. That's why, you know, art competitions are a little confusing to me. I mean,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
“Living life as an artist is a practice. You are either engaging in the practice or you’re not. It makes no sense… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it:… — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think arts should be liberal, people should be allowed to express themselves. It happens in most democratic countries in the world,… — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“You were an artist. For a moment. Was it too much? Was it the drugs that helped you? The drugs that killed… — James Franco Copy Share Image
'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that… — Judith Hill Copy Share Image
“The serious writer was aware of a paradox at the heart of his art: his inner world, the place of the strongest… — Marcus Speh Copy Share Image
Black art is not some kind of a magic wand: there still has to be a humble heart attached that's listening to… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
“I'm the only true artist Rome has known - the only one, believe me - to match his inspiration with his deeds.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“[Picasso] loved...women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed… — Marina Picasso Copy Share Image
“The river, tonally, does not recede, presenting the same lifeless grey near and far, a depthless plane upon which Schmitt’s dragging oars… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Craft can be practiced by anyone, regardless of the skill or artistry that has come to be demanded by those who preach… — Maura Madden Copy Share Image
Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
The exercise of magical power is the exercise of natural powers, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature. A miracle is… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, maybe what attracts us aren't the stories of falling apart so much as the stories of self-creation. The… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things… — Ken Done Copy Share Image
No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and… — Edmund Snow Carpenter Copy Share Image
“The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I get hired as a writer or producer and I do the best I can to bring out that artist. If somebody… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God,… — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not… — Padma Subrahmanyam Copy Share Image
Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They… — David Geffen Copy Share Image
“Now don't think I've lost my mind - but I'll tell you, I'll look at some of the cards I have, some… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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