O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist. — Ray Conniff Copy Share Image
Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story -… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make… — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. — Henry Mille Copy Share Image
For me, it's always an organic process. I don't personally reach out to artists without the music being created first. — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art:… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image