“Comfort with an art form that uses language comes because we all own it, to one degree or another. Words come from… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The same double-headed eagle, supporting the figure of a man or a god, is met with at Boghaz Keui, and must be… — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I don't think you can tell somebody how they should collect. I think it's just about being turned on by art.At the… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time… — Julie Doucet Copy Share Image
Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
When I went to my first CMA Fest, I wanted to be an artist, but I was such a fan girl -… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture,… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
I don't get really inspired the way some people do, buzzing with ideas - it feels like hard work to me... but… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the cranky old guy, but a lot of critics are too forgiving of mediocre artists. When you… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
“Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it disappears. The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
It's like art. Imagine you're an artist and someone shows up to your gallery and says, 'Your art sucks.' You're like, 'Damn,… — Micah Parsons Copy Share Image
If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain.… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
You know, being the artist and not knowing when you sometimes create a song, you don't think about whether it's gonna start… — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
“Now, but these three," cried Jurgen, "are the glory of Philistia: and of all that Philistia has produced, it is these three… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
You know that you don't have all the answers, and the unknown is the best place where you would want to be… — Leonardo Drew Copy Share Image
The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree… — John Constable Copy Share Image
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Susie paints for the glory of God. “It’s the only way I can do it,” she said. “It all comes from him.”… — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
“Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
“Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Bad Religion took a long time to develop into gold-record-status artists. Along the way we learned and applied our knowledge, and Atlantic… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
In addition to all of the ratios and goals and parameters and bottom lines, it is fundamental that leaders endorse a concept… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
Before all things, the Teacher of Peace and the Master of Unity would not have prayer made singly and individually, as for… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
![“Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?” quote by Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/eaf/elizabeth-bishop-9054_art_why-shouldn-t-we-so-generally-addicted-t_2632117.png)
![“We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just…” quote by KRS-One](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/92d/krs-one-2404_art_we-black-people-don-t-respect-our-elders_1985041.png)
![“I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.” quote by Nikki Giovanni](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/4ce/nikki-giovanni-1757_art_i-think-it-s-the-strength-of-her-music-u_2650526.png)
