Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation. — Doris McCarthy Copy Share Image
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“Something in your brushwork touches the heart, Issun. You never abandoned your life as an artist after all.” — Oki Copy Share Image
I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that,… — Laura Osnes Copy Share Image
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it’s art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It’s” — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and… — Joe Lando Copy Share Image
You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
When I'm getting ready for a part, the makeup artist will often say something like: 'Oh, you don't seem the type for… — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are… — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
“It was supposed to say “Great Artist” on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say “such a good… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“And this is what mere humanity always does. It's made up of these inventors or artists, millions and millions of them, each… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Don't look at me like an R&B artist. Most of the places that I go to and the people that I be… — Keyshia Cole Copy Share Image
I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love. — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
As a performing artiste, we always need love and support from family. — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
You should be able to deliver what the artist you're working with wants. — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
All artists are redundant about their own style; they can't escape themselves. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Delhi has statues and busts of so many politicians. But what about our artistes? — Gulzar Copy Share Image
