“A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and… — Paul Rusconi Copy Share Image
“Everything could undergo conversion except the artists. How can you convert disorganizers of past and present order, the chronic dissenters, those dispossessed… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“And criticism - what place is that to have in our culture? Well, I think that the first duty of an art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
“Edward Tylor, a distinguished nineteenth-century cultural anthropologist. For him culture is “that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Most of our artists are songwriters, so the songs are still central to all this. If you don't have great songs, it… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
“We find . . . in everyday life, where dilemmas are sometimes solved by the most surprising new propositions; many artists, philosophers,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I'm most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical… — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
When you're actually talented, and you have something to offer, people start to look at you for you as opposed to who… — Katie Cassidy Copy Share Image
Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop… — Jacques Plante Copy Share Image
All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're… — David Chase Copy Share Image
“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
What people that are professionals in the art world - both in literature and the other arts - always try to do… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Every advancement in human history, every scientific discovery, every artistic masterpiece, every new idea has come from an individual looking at the… — Kate Scott Copy Share Image
And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such… — Baker Brownell Copy Share Image
Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart,… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from… — William James Copy Share Image
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Just as artists who draw landscapes get down in the valley to study the mountains and go up to the mountains to… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“...flow - a state that some artists experience in their creative moments and that many other people achieve when enthralled by a… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I'm listening to Spotify all the time and pulling in different things. I might find an artist or a song that I… — Greg Kurstin Copy Share Image
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities,… — Stephen Furst Copy Share Image
A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be… The… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear,… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
“5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image