“His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant.… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes That have been so bedazzled with the sun That everything I look on seemeth green. Now… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The art has to have a life of its own and not merely illustrate. I've always felt a great illustration can make… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
People often misuse the term 'Regency' to describe art or antiques dating from a vague period between the 1790s and the 1830s,… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“For years I've gathered various books, sources. When I was little it might have been Tolkien, and so I would have just… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“Cling not to one mood, And deemed not thou art right, all others wrong. For whoso thinks that wisdom dwells with him,… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“Young children are developing more of an artistic orientation, and the orientation they develop is so naturally graceful and lively that many… — William Crain Copy Share Image
O blessed bounty, giving ail content! The only fautress of all noble arts That lend'st success to every good intent. A grace… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
'Celebrity' is sort of an idea. I mean, I get to do something extraordinary, but I don't think it makes me extraordinary.… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Art is a meta-language, with the help of which people try to communicate with one another; to impart information about themselves and… — Andrei Copy Share Image
“Next to her, my grandfather softly droops under the grand dome above us, painted by some hideously famous artist centuries ago, as… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, what makes creative people creative isn't just their flair for art, words, or song. It's their belief that they can figure… — Bonnie Wan Copy Share Image
Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“There are other noteworthy characteristics of this rock art style: Anthropomorphs without headdresses instead sport horns, or antennae, or a series of… — Amy Irvine Copy Share Image
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
“I call it our English Renaissance because it is indeed a sort of new birth of the spirit of man, like the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Try this receipt, O believer, whenever thou art sad of heart and in heaviness of spirit: forget thyself and thy little concerns,… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I've been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world. But it is otherwise with thy love… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are… — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty… — Horatio Alger Copy Share Image
Nirvana's amazing, but they're just never going to find another one, there's no artist development anymore, you're never going to have a… — Richard Patrick Copy Share Image
“We didn't, after all, sing "Another One Bites The Dust" as the coffin was carried out; Hazel and the vicar had settled… — Danielle Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I don’t think there’s any border between science and art. All the fiction films I have made were always on the same… — Jean Rouch Copy Share Image
Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
