“The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists. — R. O. Blechman Copy Share Image
“O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the hearts of desperate men!” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
I'm actually really bad at the Internet. I'm never scouring it to find new artists or new anything. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
I look at basketball as an art, so whatever I do on the court, I try to make it as smooth as… — Jerami Grant Copy Share Image
You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I’ve studied this form of art since joining the lifestyle. It’s my gift, you could say. My talent.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth. — Fefe Dobson Copy Share Image
To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“For me, a certain sign of quality or class in art is that when I read, see or listen to something, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
It just was really difficult for me to learn how to express myself on TikTok in a way that didn't feel like… — Chappell Roan Copy Share Image
![“To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.” quote by Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/042/anais-nin-288_america_to-mistake-ugliness-for-reality-is-one-o_2772367.png)
