We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what. — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
“This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
In some ways, writing music is an art because so much of it is instinctive and sort of below consciousness, and lyric… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
It's really painful when four singers are asked to sing one track, and in the end, only one of them is kept.… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
You can feel greatness in the ring. You can get two guys that gel together and it's just like poetry or a… — Ricky Steamboat Copy Share Image
The mystery of the artist is something that the 70's made, but it's not the same these days, and I don't know...… — Ryan Follese Copy Share Image
Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength. — Kano Jigoro Copy Share Image
An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it. — John Thomas Sladek Copy Share Image
When you savour and relish every moment, then you learn the art of preserving yourself. — Rekha Copy Share Image
