The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art,… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
We are working on organising classical music festivals in a bid to promote qawwali there and produce films that promote music. Perhaps… — Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or… — Nargis Fakhri Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the… — Emile Jaques-Dalcroze Copy Share Image
I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Museums have traditionally been places that protect the art object. But in the last 40 years, a new type of museum has… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
I feel self-conscious for even having met so many other band people and artists, I don't want to be that artist that… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“If you could truly believe, we should realise the virtue of it. We are not free to believe . . . . … — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
I really think people are greatly stimulated and enriched by experiencing in film just as we can from novels and other art,… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The South African artist William Kentridge speaks to this type of certainty: 'To say that one needs art, or politics, that incorporate… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but… — Fannie Farmer Copy Share Image
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
In acting, you get to explore such an artistic side with different characters to research and learn and explore different things inside… — Gina Carano Copy Share Image
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When I got involved in the punk scene, my notion of what a career was changed. I realized that a career in… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our… — Hal Zina Bennett Copy Share Image
“The creative triangle connects three dimensions: the individual, the domain (the particular symbolic system in which the individual works) and the field… — David Gauntlett Copy Share Image
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Fine art galleries are the excellent setups for exhibiting art, generally aesthetic art such as paints, sculptures, and digital photography. Basically, art… — Famous Art Galleries Copy Share Image
In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess,… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor and her leisure;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim,… — Delphine Arnault Copy Share Image
