We teach the karate methodology, bringing back the history of the martial art, the attacks that stopped being used when the martial… — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
“Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
So, I mean, there's still vast swaths of the city that are suffering from a lack of jobs and poor housing and… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice… As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“Recognize things when they are at their best, in their season, and know how to enjoy them then. The works of nature… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall Copy Share Image
A creation made right after another. Each one made either by the neat strokes of an artist hand, or by the sloppy… — Music Copy Share Image
“The thing about being an artist," Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, "is that there are… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because… — Charles Lindbergh 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
“The right art," cried the Master, "is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
“If you stand before a canvas, up close, almost to the point where your nose touches paint, you will see nothing but… — Pen Copy Share Image
Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I remember the first time my friend Colin Lewis, who used to be a judge with me on a show on MuchMusic… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
I think the role of the artist today is about being provocative. I don't mean shocking, but you have to provoke people… — Mira Calix Copy Share Image
I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists,… — Adam Kluger Copy Share Image
Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing… — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
I think any performing artist can do films, or, as a matter of fact, anybody out there in the street can be… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations -… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Yes,’ he cried, ‘you have killed my love! You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. You… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It's unfortunate that we don't have a mentor system anymore. In the Renaissance, artists were apprentices to masters. You learn to do… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
