There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else.… — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
My Instagram has personal things, like pictures of my home, but generally it's my voice, and that's a public thing. Using my… — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
The real difference between God and human beings is that God cannot stand continence. No sooner has he created a season of… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I had an artistic streak and was good at painting and drawing and also very good at English, but I did want… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
What is art?... From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being… — Carter Ratcliff Copy Share Image
“I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some… — Hokusai Katsushika Copy Share Image
In art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
I believe that the art market is in a place similar to the music industry in 2005. Big changes are coming and… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage… — D. W. Griffith Copy Share Image
Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen -… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture,… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early… — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
When you face obstacles or go through different phases, I always relied on my music. I depend on my music, my teammates.… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“She’s also quite the master carver, as her sculptures attest, even if her medium is rather morbid. Ana carves things out of… — Heather R. Blair Copy Share Image
“Sibelius’ personal secretary conceded that ‘when a small nation of four million people produces an artist whose acclaim is truly universal, it… — Michael Steen Copy Share Image
In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
“I don’t do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I would love to do Broadway the rest of my life! Because it's challenging, because it makes me grow as an actor,… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If politically infused music is denied airplay, music reviews or festival stage time because it is considered "politics" rather than "art", then… — Moddi Copy Share Image
To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image