“The art of hearing what somebody has to say is actually, listening.” — Colette Ruland Parrino Copy Share Image
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that. — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
“We are God’s art. We are God’s poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.” — Gregory Dickow Copy Share Image
I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Creating art is a lonely task, which is why we introverts revel in it, but when we have fans” — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music. — Terri Clark Copy Share Image
The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy. — Oli Thompson Copy Share Image
I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament. — Al Pacino 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 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
“because Christian artists substituted spiritual strength for Greek surface beauty.” — Max I. Dimont Copy Share Image
Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Don’t be a critic. The critic is to art what the limp penis is to sex.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art. — Lawrence Watt-Evans Copy Share Image