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
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form. — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry. — John Hollander Copy Share Image
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
“What if you start to think of your art in terms of sales, too? Can you still be true to yourself?” — Kevin Emerson Copy Share Image
If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
“Love is a word that is constantly heard, Hate is a word that is not. Love, I am told, is more precious… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The great thing about the Guggenheim is that you can see art in the fastest way if you want to. Which isn't… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
There are many artists that I know exactly where they are born and what their names are and where they live, which… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
I don't suspect that in many instances the artists who are dedicated in that fashion to the progress of that community are… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
“that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as a guy who goes out and represents the art of jiu-jitsu. — Demian Maia Copy Share Image
“As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.” — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
I have a very broad-minded family. Acting is an art, and we understand that. — Esha Gupta Copy Share Image
I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself. — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
If the eyes are the windows to the soul then you have perfected the art of hiding yours — Unkown Copy Share Image
There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time. — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
