“Thus discernment, artistic or otherwise, is a critical skill, and yet it can be something we take for granted, in part because… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I feel really fortunate and grateful that not only do I get to do what I love, but I get to do… — Wilson Cruz Copy Share Image
“We weren’t idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '70s and '80s when my dad had an art gallery, one of the things that frustrated me was… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending… — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
“In Marcus’s words is the secret to an art known as turning obstacles upside down. To act with “a reverse clause,” so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Artistic teachers can, on a sudden desire stop teaching, and turn a class upside down by making students laugh. They can create… — Kavita Bhupta Ghosh Copy Share Image
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if… — Amy Ryan Copy Share Image
“I once had a drinking contest with an artist on his yacht... It amused him as I took shot after shot, and… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I am interested in Icons, not just religious works but also contemporary icons. I also like the way the Pop movement of… — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Mastering the art of seduction gives one a great power, and like any power, it's to be wielded with responsibility; a man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
“BEAUTY. The visionary authority of Childs’s work resides, in part, in its lack of rhetoric. Her strict avoidance of cliché, and of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Relationships are so important to me. Talking to someone, listening to them, and even writing a handwritten note or giving someone a… — Natalya Neidhart Copy Share Image
“Remember when we didn't know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes… — Mona Adnan Copy Share Image
I'm sure Madonna has been a huge influence for many female artists. Her live shows always make a massive impact; the sets… — BoA Copy Share Image
“as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think.… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“Artists and activists offend the sensibilities of the rule-bound when they interfere with people”s ability to accept things in the private realm… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
“The artist’s artistic brush stroke of colour... Fractionally exists within the art canvas cover... Unaware of its existence in the art’s totality...… — Hugh Shergill Copy Share Image
Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
'Samurai' is not an animated show like you would normally watch on TV. We tell the stories from a different perspective -… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature.… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
To hear an artist be transparent is one of the greatest things they could ever do for their fans. I love that,… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“It was so much more. You allowed your feelings to spill onto the stage in a way everyone in that room could… — Kathryn Craft Copy Share Image