Whether it's a song that might deviate from an artists' usual sound or even if it's still very much in their world,… — Lewis Capaldi Copy Share Image
One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The exact eye: exact observation: it was a man's work. The only work for a man. Why then were artists soft: effeminate:… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“What music "means" is almost completely dependent on the people who sell it and the people who buy it, not the people… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy's: "Art is a human activity having for it's purpose the transmission to… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
One of my daughters wants to act, but none of them sing - well, one of them sings but she's got some… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back… — John Major Copy Share Image
The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring, surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him. More than… — Toshitsugu Takamatsu Copy Share Image
Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I… — Felix Gonzalez-Torres Copy Share Image
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It's interesting to think about connecting the dots within an archive in a different way than linearly or teleologically. It's a great… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a… — David Galenson Copy Share Image
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“mother's love of books and spent a great deal of time outdoors, where she grew up independent and free spirited. Nature became… — Sandra McLeod Humphrey Copy Share Image
Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
One thing that I am becoming to learn is that you've got to have patience and wait your turn in this game.… — Omarion Copy Share Image
I love color. It must submit to me. And I love art. I kneel before it, and it must become mine. Everything… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
Mixed martial arts - there's just been a lot of trash talking and things like that. People, I feel like, aren't really… — Rose Namajunas Copy Share Image
The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot… — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
What's happening in the larger world always influences art. When I first started the gallery in 1959, one of the first things… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
My boyfriend has always been a collector of art. He once rang up Paul Kenton and asked him to paint a New… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
As much as it pleases God to bless you, there will be moments when everything you try goes up in smoke. There… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved… — Silvano Arieti Copy Share Image
“You can tell a lot about a country by its prisons. In hippy-dippy Socialist Sweden, rapists and murders (all three of them)… — Maureen Klovers Copy Share Image
“You can tell which ones are the artists,' Nanny Piggins said loudly, for she could be instructive when she chose to be.… — R. A. Spratt Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
