The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
I don't think I am a soul singer and definitely don't think that I am a country artist by any stretch. — Anderson East Copy Share Image
Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
A record is kind of a piece of art itself, and it's such a tangible experience playing an LP end to end. — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident. — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
You can help me by advancing equality, supporting arts and education, and saving this goddamn planet. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
“But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their… — James A. Durham Copy Share Image
When anyone is creating anything, it has no choice but to be in that stream. The art I create and the art… — Jennifer Higdon Copy Share Image
I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The reality of recording, it's one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right,… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
“She was rare, few and far between She suspected he would be as well And the thought of two rare, few and… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point. — George Bellows 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
Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me. — Shakira 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
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules. — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be… — Don Hertzfeldt 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
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
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
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
Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs. — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
People think that the big companies make songs and their artists just release it. It's not like that. — Henry Lau Copy Share Image
When your principal artists deliver convincing performances, the film's quality is elevated. — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist? — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider. — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
“All who have meditated upon the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depend upon the education… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
