Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There are any number of models artists can use to profit off of their talent and artistry. It is not up to… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
I think for a lot of people that are in performing arts, it's easy to fall into the trap of starting to… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
“The human body is a funny machine. When you want to move something - say, your arm - the brain actually sends… — Hiroshi Sakurazaka Copy Share Image
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
With regards to music, I don't want to pigeonhole myself and say I am a musician or a visual artist, because I… — Frances Bean Cobain Copy Share Image
To me, the term 'best of' is quite embarrassing, I think of Madonna and Bruce Springsteen and all these amazing artists. I… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
“There will be no New Year for those who keep living in the older years! If you really want to enter a… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I'm doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I've been… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I don't know who made up this sort of greatest-hits list for artists. If one artist isn't moving forward anymore, then it's… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and… — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The general public long ago stopped looking for beauty in high culture. But it still has TV and the movies…you are far… — Sohrab Ahmari Copy Share Image
I use all types of instruments, really depending on the film. Instrument choices are very much tied to lighting, colors, art direction,… — Douglas Pipes Copy Share Image
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Growing up as a little, introverted boy, dance was the only way I could communicate. For me, it's the greatest language -… — Alyssa Edwards Copy Share Image
I don't think I had any conscious decision in my love of country music. It was more subconscious, and I think with… — CMAT Copy Share Image
Those are the murderers of art who are sitting on the top wearing crowns of fake intelligence. Let me bring them down… — Jeet Aulakh Copy Share Image
Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
You can look at mixed martial arts and you can look at the way the teams and the best gyms in the… — Dan Hooker Copy Share Image
Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
I try not to see myself as anything, as that would be embarrassing. But if I had to label myself, I'd probably… — Matt Berry Copy Share Image
And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist,… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Acting isn't safe. You do it partly because it's dangerous. If you can be happy doing something else... do that. You should… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
“It was supposed to say “Great Artist” on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say “such a good… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are… — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Our music is always, as you know, very spacey- computer graphics, music, images, lyrics, and visual art we make ourselves, or that… — Ralf Hutter Copy Share Image
What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every way, and a more satisfying medium.… — Eli Wallach Copy Share Image
“Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Don't look at me like an R&B artist. Most of the places that I go to and the people that I be… — Keyshia Cole Copy Share Image
A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“And this is what mere humanity always does. It's made up of these inventors or artists, millions and millions of them, each… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
