It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature. — George Inness Copy Share Image
“Contentment is the art of counting your own blessings, not someone else’s.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
I was the first artist to put the national anthem on the charts, and I'm thrilled. — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
Faith is the art of holding on to things despite your changing moods and circumstances. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy. — Norman Reilly Raine Copy Share Image
I listen to Sting, Air Supply, Eagles - these are artists I've grown up on I tend to go back to that… — KK Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
“They all want to leave the Gray Space, Liv, she’d tell me. They don’t realise they’re dead until they remember what it… — Kate Ellison Copy Share Image
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold… — Dominique de Menil Copy Share Image
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Cooking was a passion and sometimes a serious art form, to be shared with a select few.” — Isabel Vincent 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
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
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
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I like visual arts, and what I love doing is participating in the making of it. — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
There's no making art for art's sake. You've got to make the best art you can. — John Gourley Copy Share Image
“Experience. The art of getting it right, maybe the second time around.” — Clive Barry Copy Share Image
It is very easy to make an art film. They are an exercise in self-deception. — Joy Mathew Copy Share Image
“Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.” — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
“The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.” — Christian Michael Copy Share Image
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
