Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important. — Marcel Carne Copy Share Image
If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I've trained in wing chung, jeet kune do, I've indulged in many arts that people would not have thought I have trained… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
I just wanna be an artist, like someone like Bjork and Kate Bush and Regina Spektor. These are people that have saved… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“I used to ask myself, ‘Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?’ and thanks to the club, I… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
Only he can be an artist who has a religion all his own - an original way of viewing infinity. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act… — Seth Copy Share Image
The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
“There are two gifts which every man of images needs to be a true creator: a certain sensitivity to life, to living… — Brassaï Copy Share Image
“the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
“Scientists could make a human, but they could not make an artist.” — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special. — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me. — Joseph Trapanese Copy Share Image
The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains. — William Morris Copy Share Image
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes. — Mary Beth McKenzie Copy Share Image
