Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned? — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me. — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity. — Barbara Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, music has been a huge part of my life. My parents had a pretty solid vinyl collection… — Reid Scott Copy Share Image
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles,… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
“... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.” — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the… — Michelle Malone Copy Share Image
I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“[...] For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Regular people don't even realize how much artists mean to them. Artists represent a lot to the average person. People listen to… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you… — Forest Whitaker 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
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
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