The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
There are goals that I had set out for myself as an artist. I have accomplished some of them - becoming accepted… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his… — Max Minghella Copy Share Image
“the idea of "extension" makes sense to me because art and the world can't be as easily divided as we sometimes imagine.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Behold the Child among his new-born blisses A six years' Darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Dennis is something special. We are talking a lot about exciting football, and Dennis Bergkamp, I think, started with attractive football a… — Frank Rijkaard Copy Share Image
At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must… — Frederick Hart Copy Share Image
“Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Because this law could mean so much or so little, it held potential for causing great mischief in the world of art… — John Frohnmayer Copy Share Image
It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don't be calculated about it… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet,… — Anne Ellis Copy Share Image
The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
“The Enlightened spirit is not like some safe cracker whose ear is pressed to the metal while his fingers imperceptibly turn a… — Joshua Gibbs Copy Share Image
This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Interviewer: “Andy do you feel that the public has insulted your art?” Andy Warhol: “Uh no.” I: “Why not?” AW: “Uh well… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“For an important intellectual product to be immediately weighty, a deep relationship or concordance has to exist between the life of its… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime.… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe… — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I've been working for this industry since I was 15, and every makeup artist I've known who's worth my time uses Jao… — Logan Browning Copy Share Image
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
To be recognized by a brand like Reebok and to know that the company is looking at mixed martial arts shows the… — Anthony Pettis Copy Share Image
I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
“You painted all those characters into the paintings all over the school, and every one of them is a portrait of you,… — G. Norman Lippert Copy Share Image
You're never going to release the next album and have it be different from your other two, three, four, five albums. People… — Benson Henderson Copy Share Image
“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein… — John Yau Copy Share Image
Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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