When you see something very beautiful that's real, like a flower, it seems fake. And when you see a beautiful flower handmade… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
“From the 13th century until 1737, Florence was ruled by the wealthy and powerful Medici family. The Medicis were successful in business… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way… — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
While I was still going to embrace social media, I knew I had to do things that nobody else was doing. I… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
If you're good at the art and you wanna make money, then it's fine. But if you're just doing it because you… — Bishop Nehru Copy Share Image
Being movie director you've got the art department, you've got the actors, you've got the camera department, you've got make-up and hair,… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Though the extractive institutions that the Mayas created produced sufficient wealth for the cities to flourish and the elite to become wealthy… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Find something that you want to do when you're 60. Find your passion. Your passion, your work, whatever it is that you… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism.… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
“What the young writer needs to develop, to achieve his goal of becoming a great artist, is not a set of aesthetic… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“By art alone we can get out of ourselves, find out what another person sees of this universe which is not the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I couldn't have written [What Good Are The Arts?] because I--and I'm not alone, by any means--do not have Carey's breadth of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
What motivates me is the chance to improve the world in my own special way; to contribute to the fight that all… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course,… — Karen Fukuhara Copy Share Image
I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
If you're serious about singing or acting, which are two art forms that get repetitive, the way to keep the music fresh… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
“In this world, this life, "flow" [the times when our work or play so absorbs and attunes our energies that we lose… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“After spending all that time in bed, I realized I was treating the act of eating as though it's the art of… — Kyung Ran Jo Copy Share Image
There are artists in Belgium who try to imitate American artists. But it's like, if you're Belgian pretending to be American, you… — Stromae Copy Share Image
“Writing is the art of remembering and forgetting. You must forget what you’ve already written, because if you’re dwelling on your old… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
With acting, I'm taking somebody else's work and interpreting it. Whereas with music, it's organic. It's completely myself. Nobody else is really… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of exec that's artist-friendly, because I give them the whole play. I let them be involved with their careers… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
Everything I record, I end up putting out. You hear about artists with hundreds of songs in their archive, and I have… — Laufey Copy Share Image
“All my life I have refused to be for or against parties, for or against nations, for or against people. I never… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it… — Dennis Nurkse Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
The human body is beauty, art, creativity, expression, a vessel for the soul, our temple and a magnificent machine. We have to… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
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