“And all this culture, all this art, was simply a trick. It allowed us to pretend that human beings were noble, intelligent… — Gordon Reece Copy Share Image
I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists.… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
As an artist, it took me some time to understand and appreciate that Oh, there are certain things that are really important.… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“If arts and music, precious gifts in themselves, were akin to memory, literature was the self-knowing of the species; the human mind… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize… — James Ensor Copy Share Image
Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and… — Pedro Reyes Copy Share Image
“Artificial intelligence is often described as the art and science of “getting machines to do things that would be considered intelligent if… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I believe in an artiste's life, there are two kinds of awards - first is the appreciation and good wishes he or… — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with… — Daniele Vare Copy Share Image
By the beginning of the 20th Century, Cannes and the coastal strip that winds its rocky way to Monaco was the winter… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
When I was at art school we used to make films, and we had a really very realistic manikin that we threw… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
People pay attention to artists and celebrities, so they have the opportunity to do something great with this limelight. I, for one,… — Yuna Copy Share Image
“I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
“Oh, mention it! If I storm, you have the art of weeping." "Mr. Rochester, I must leave you." "For how long, Jane?… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There's the subreddits, the fan forums, fan fic, cosplay and fan art. Then there's breaking down the trailers, frame-by-frame, and breaking down… — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don't normally do, but I think that's just a… — Kristen Wiig Copy Share Image
I feel like every piece of art is a mirror of what's going on in the present time, because the artist -… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, "Oh,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Don’t make fun,” Alexis scolded. “The Stinger’s design was piss before I came along. I turned it into a work of art,… — S.G. Night Copy Share Image
“You get my idea. Nothing of "artistic" literature about it, just straight medicine, a universal panacea, a fetish in a sense: if… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet… — Andrew Denton Copy Share Image
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Some years ago, I read an article about two people in the arts (alas, I can’t remember who they were) who’d been… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work… — VIRGIL PROFEANU Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“I flicked the glitter off. Whatever, that might've come from anywhere. Maybe I'd walked by an art class at some point. Maybe… — Cherry Cheva Copy Share Image
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
“In a fearful, eroding democracy, it remains to be seen whether art continues to be free to act in the public sphere… — Gregory Sholette Copy Share Image
“I knew a girl and she felt like art. Sometimes colorful, sometimes dull, Sometimes with bright, hopeful eyes, Sometimes only black and… — Melanie Sargsian Copy Share Image
“On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
