A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Every movie that I've picked, from my first film on, has been considered by everyone to be 'career suicide.' And I have… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
Every artist that I've parodied has been cool with it so far. I know one hasn't loved a version of it, but… — Willam Belli Copy Share Image
Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
I decided that love, like all relationships, is a form of art. You can only keep beautifying it by constant attention and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And that, I guessed, was the aim of the Lord Chamberlain's Men: to serve up rich helpings of life to their audiences,… — J. B. Cheaney Copy Share Image
It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
We all want recognition and validation to an extent for our art, but greatness as a trade for decency is a risky… — El-P Copy Share Image
My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“He’s living with artists!” said his mother tearfully to the ambassador. “Oh, leave the boy alone,” said the ambassador. “He’ll soon get… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too… — Paul Hamilton Hayne Copy Share Image
The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“The act of running is simple, one foot in front of the other. The art of becoming a runner is achieved through… — Terry Lander Copy Share Image
The more people are listening to music and experiencing it, the more value for both the music companies and the artist, especially… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
“Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest;… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. The artist says, 'I will make that event happen… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend’ THOU art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
“Great gaps occur in the history of the art, because most of the early work was ruined by the climate, and much… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn.… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“Living is art. Breathing and heart beating is music. Seeing is painting the world with our eyes. Touching is sculpting the shape… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
“It had all been fake, a choreographed event, but they could not escape the dread that rattled inside their chests. It was… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
“I yet beseech your majesty,-- If for I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not; since what I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My first experience of doing martial arts was weird, real traditional, strange smell with incense burning. We did a lot of bowing,… — Nick Diaz Copy Share Image
My Picassos and Ferraris - those are kind of just toys. Those aren't the things that matter. What matters in the car… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
When contemplating a shield that would protect America for incoming missiles, Democrats suddenly became hardheaded fiscal conservatives. For the first time in… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps;… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I see a lot of people who have amazing stories but have been told that their work, their lives, and their stories… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
