If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.” — Carol Hovsepian Copy Share Image
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear. — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision. — Laurence Gartel Copy Share Image
Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. — John Keats Copy Share Image
I think that's my hope for a lot of the feminist movement is that the gender thing sort of stops being the… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
“The art of rap is deceptive. It seems so straightforward and personal and real that people read it completely literally, as raw… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I'm not into makeup or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don't really define what it is to… — Tones and I Copy Share Image
Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“There is no “right” way to make art. The only wrong is in not trying, not doing.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I love art more than anything in the world except for my family. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
