Cutting out images you like from art books and framing them is a great way of getting beautiful works on your wall.… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
As nice as some of the booths are, it's not the same thing. It's a pity for young artists, because one of… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I am constantly reminded that we human beings are basically storytellers. More homo narrans than Homo sapiens. We see ourselves in others'… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
My experience says that if you put out a lot of personal work that's good, it tends to attract high dollar commercial… — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was… — John Prine Copy Share Image
One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist,… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
“In the art of peace, a single cut of the sword summons up the wondrous powers of the universe. That one sword… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
The only thing that's better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
As the artist, you have to live in order to experience life to put that out there, and when you are successful… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“Art is an attempt to capture the truths of the world as you see it in a medium you can share with… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
“Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The reason for backing tracks is to not veer off too far from the record and have what the fans actually want… — Chris Johnson Copy Share Image
“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
“In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic… — Amelia Jones Copy Share Image
Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside,… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I am good in the fact that most of my reviews have been very positive really. I get pretty good reviews. There… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Not 'I don't give a f-' to just be reckless and do whatever, but 'I don't give a f- what they say.'… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I think it's our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the… — Mitski Copy Share Image
“I’m allergic to abstraction. Especially in my first two books, I was telling the story of the transformation of urban America, especially… — Carlo Rotella Copy Share Image
When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?" Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself.… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and… — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image