But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
“Water doesn’t shape like clay when you move it with your hands. I've spent a lot of time swimming, and none of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
We are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I spent all day wandering up and down the hallways, staring at the Mona Lisa and Canova’s 'Psyche and Cupid' and the… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
People often feel something,but express something else,They mean something but say something else. So learn the art of saying nothing in such… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician.… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a… — Juliet Barker Copy Share Image
Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why 'Here's The Thing', Alec Baldwin's series of podcasts with 'artists, policymakers and performers', is so good is… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war recognizes nine varieties of ground: (1) Dispersive ground; (2) Facile ground; (3) Contentious ground;… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Sometimes in art we are too afraid. Too afraid of what people will think, how they will judge. Who are we to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Men of great genius, whether their work be in poetry, philosophy or art, stand in all ages like isolated heroes, keeping up… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles… — Art Malik Copy Share Image
