The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I know I can only do as much as I can do... Although I have so many ideas of my own, I'm… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
I think circumstance plays a big part in terms of what I do. For example, if I wasn't ever able to show… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort… — David Gandy Copy Share Image
In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
“but had always felt she was a visitor. She felt disconnected and different everywhere else too, but far from being a problem… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“She learnt how to give up on dreams she wasn't destined to dream about, and yet have the courage to breathe for… — Kanika Bankhad Copy Share Image
At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
It's very lucky when you have an artist - whether it's a novelist or a filmmaker or a singer - whose career… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I went to UCLA and studied studio art. I thought I was going to be a gallery painter, photographer, or ceramicist. Then,… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
“According to this view, all that matters to art appreciation is beauty of form. The logical extreme of aestheticism turns out to… — John McAteer Copy Share Image
Lots of things motivate me: my coworkers motivate me to work harder and always strive to be a better artist. My dad… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
“A Lake Charles-based artist, Sally was a progressive Democrat who in 2016 primary favored Bernie Sanders. Sally's very dear friend and worl-traveling… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't… — Rico Love Copy Share Image
The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas.… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and… — Richard Hovey Copy Share Image
“When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
“A master piece with a use of fullness !!! Artist & writer / designer .Best Selling rated book selected at worldwide publisher.inc… — Andre Pace Copy Share Image
What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Sin! Sin! Thou art a hateful and horrible thing, that abominable thing which God hates. And what wonder? Thou hast insulted His… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
