American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
The martial arts genre a lot of times has been relegated to B-level action. — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being a single hopeless romantic is like being an artist without a brush. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not much of an art guy but I really do love Shelby and Sandy's work - they look like they're made… — David Dobrik Copy Share Image
I am here to enjoy life. I am not here to suffer. I am here to be a dreamer, to be an… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.” — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
“Most critics, fond of subservient art still make the whole depend upon a part. They talk of principles, but notions prize And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I did it all for me. Purely selfish. I worshiped the art and the act of death, over and over. It’s as… — Dennis Nilsen Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an… — Michael Schenker Copy Share Image
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconsciousrepression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
My greatest passion has always been connecting with creative people, appreciating the artistic and discovering fresh perspectives on the world. I came… — Bruce Livingstone Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them. — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
There's sacrificing for your art, and then there's just being dumb. — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." — Gustave Flaubert” — Minnie Estelle Miller Copy Share Image
