Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I really don't believe in being 'gifted.' I really think what you put in is what you get. People say, 'Oh, this… — Beneil Dariush Copy Share Image
The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom… — Oh Land Copy Share Image
Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in… — Neil Harbisson Copy Share Image
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I really don't like art with a message, unless the message is crystal clear. If you have a message that really needs… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Martial arts, for me, is not just some kind of job to gain some money or whatever. No, martial arts, for me,… — Valentina Shevchenko Copy Share Image
“Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think it's to do what's important to you, and having a lot of people - hopefully - listening to your work.… — MO Copy Share Image
“Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
“I did it all for me. Purely selfish. I worshiped the art and the act of death, over and over. It’s as… — Dennis Nilsen Copy Share Image
We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconsciousrepression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
My greatest passion has always been connecting with creative people, appreciating the artistic and discovering fresh perspectives on the world. I came… — Bruce Livingstone Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an… — Michael Schenker Copy Share Image
I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening… — Emily Lazar Copy Share Image
At the 'L.A. Times,' I always wanted to write about artists I thought were meaningful. So I interviewed Bob Dylan, John Lennon,… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
As in nature. and in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones, their… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just… — Quavo Copy Share Image
“It is a truism that when one is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The glory of art is that it… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“Cizek came to Vienna [from Leitmeritz, a small town in Bohemia, then Austrian] when he was twenty [in 1885], and entered the… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“In art, in history man fights his fears, he wants to live forever, he is afraid of death, he wants to work… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I was always interested in drawing and creating, but it never really occurred to me that I could pursue art as my… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
![“It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just went the other way and didn't follow the rap tradition. We just killed it and made it our tradition.” quote by Quavo](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a3a/quavo-8176_art_it-seems-other-rap-artists-are-trying-to_3200979.jpg)
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