Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
I think drawing is really the basis of all art, even sculpture, film. The greatest filmmakers have always been able to at… — David Small Copy Share Image
“Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
In early days of Live Nation, we really believed it was important to be a direct-to-consumer business, which the labels aren't and… — Michael Rapino Copy Share Image
“I turn to Willa Cather’s quote: Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.… — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
“Five minutes later the makeup artist told Dena to smile, the tiniest bit, on the right side, as she worked busily on… — Terez Mertes Rose Copy Share Image
“If we really are saying rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition,… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
“Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I did an art show for Donald Trump at his house in Palm Beach, Florida. It was a bunch of pop art… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
“Art should be linked to abstract things - color, line, tone. It is not an instrument to improve social conditions and chase… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting… — Titian Copy Share Image
Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room… — Joan Lindsay Copy Share Image
Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Well I started out as a dancer, so I was used to this performing - performance arts. Started out getting used to… — Margaret Brennan Copy Share Image
The Internet might be killing the business for music labels, but it is working well for independent artists. I released my songs… — Sonu Kakkar Copy Share Image
... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood… — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, their own way of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Possibility and impossibility of things depends upon your flexibility and acceptance of reality: A bright future always knocks; when you start believing… — Asif Z Warsi Copy Share Image
Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I always knew from books and shows that the lives of circus artists are not easy, but spending time and learning from… — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
Street art is about as religious as I get - that's my faith, that even if people screen it out and didn't… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
I like a lot of older rock 'n' roll artists, like legends like Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. They really influenced me… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
I was driving home the other night, listening to the radio, and the guy filling in for Art Bell on Coast to… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner.… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Cartooning isn't really drawing, any more than talking is singing... The possible vocabulary of comics is by definition unlimited, the tactility of… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
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