The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal.… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
People have these weird ideas about artists being romantic, generous people, and sometimes I feel like an asshole, a selfish kid, a… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
I'm so devoted to my music and becoming the best artist I can be. I don't want to devote too much time… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
“But the thing is, in all my experience as an artist, I have found that there are people who want to destroy… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
“No authority is wholly natural or native; when we’re not borrowing from our neighbors, we’re borrowing from our ancestors. One reason art… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
“So...I'm going to ask you again, babe. Stay with me. Stay with me here in my house. It's only a five minute… — Courtney Cole Copy Share Image
She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody... they didn't need him anymore.… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
“Recognizing the power of our Mind and the power of our Soul, learning the art of Concentration and Love, we are learning… — Natasa Pantovic Nuit Copy Share Image
To me, art and music inform each other continually, and when I was making more music there was an overall aesthetic that… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
'Ashes of Time' was my third film, and as a young director at that point, it's not very often that you have… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
An artist is the only thing I want to be. I only want my freedom and my creativity. It's all that I… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The 'art… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Here's the thing, trust changes everything. Once you know what an artist can do, and you know their commitment level, it opens… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“There is something about the act of studying an unclothed body, as an artist does, that allows a person to appreciate it… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Girls who are dancers tend to be much better models than girls who just got picked off the street. Dance is a… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be present in my daughters life as much as I can. I didn't have any kids or really any… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Part of the problem [with Picasso's fame] lies with the artist himself - at that point when Picasso stopped making art and… — Art in America; Picasso: A Symposium John Jacobus Copy Share Image
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
[I] was always my dream to attend the Art Institute. I have always had this zeal to become the best that I… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
![“Part of the problem [with Picasso's fame] lies with the artist himself - at that point when Picasso stopped making art and began making Picassos...it is a potentially fatal side-effect of success for any artist... Would it be a parody of modernism's self-referentiality to describe this point as…” quote by Art in America; Picasso: A Symposium John Jacobus](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/974/art-in-america-picasso-a-sympo_art_part-of-the-problem-with-picasso-s-fame_3182724.jpg)
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