The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of… — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place controlled by black artists... that… — Michael Schultz Copy Share Image
“The real question is: to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong ? To those who can… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying… — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I'm being given a little bit of credit now as being a viable collage artist, which some people think is ridiculous. Like… — Robert Pollard Copy Share Image
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We had the city trying to demolish two of our exhibition spaces, which was at first pretty disturbing. But following the freak-out… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think,… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We all wish we were better. I wish I were a better artist, wish I were a kinder person, wish I were… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image
It's so funny to think about it now, but I kind of toned everything down about myself for 'Idol.' When it came… — Adore Delano Copy Share Image
The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of… — Philip J. Klass Copy Share Image
The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC's reasons… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
I would like the whole world to be full with authentic art, throbbing with it, living with it, because that is the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“A lot is riding on each individual docent. Here is the docent definition: a docent is a tour guide; a docent is… — Ivy Hendy Copy Share Image
Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet… — Adam Leipzig Copy Share Image
“She knocked a third time, three regular strokes, gentle, but perfectly distinct, and with meaning in them; for, modulate it with what… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a… — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
If you fight with big names, with legends of mixed martial arts like Alistair Overeem, Mark Hunt, like Fabricio Werdum, you will… — Aleksei Oleinik Copy Share Image
So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear ya Two times for the kid that air-guitars in the mirror Three times… — Danny Denzongpa Copy Share Image
I mean because I probably could be a makeup artist in my own life if I really wanted to do it. At… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
When people downloading records for free you start to think, "Is it worth spending all this money to make a record sound… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It's been kind of extreme - people either love it or they don't like it at all - and I think that's… — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, 'I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
“At present, I am particularly excited by "bad taste." I have the deep feeling that there exists in the very essence of… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
