The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money. — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
I do indie films for the sense of fulfillment and to achieve my goals as an artist. — Coco Martin Copy Share Image
Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit. — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
“Creativity is the art of producing new and abstractness of things that is not seen; but, at the end of the day… — Temitope Owosela Copy Share Image
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again. — Georg Ernst Stahl Copy Share Image
Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If… — Hugh Price Hughes Copy Share Image
All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think it's important for anyone who takes cinema seriously not to limit yourself to just optimistic or happy movies. I think… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature.… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The key to good art is to make something that means something to you. — John Morrison Copy Share Image
I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father. — Alessandro Michele Copy Share Image
It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
Everything we do is art, philosophy, mysticism, cultural commentary. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making. — Stephen Metcalf Copy Share Image
“You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion. — John Roecker Copy Share Image
“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
