I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist. — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak… — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Copy Share Image
“To become masters of love, we have to practice love. The art of relationship is also a whole mastery, and the only… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“the protocols of such gatherings, the sophisticated hypocrisies of supposed art lovers coming to an art show in order to ignore the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Even in zazen you will lose yourself. When you become sleepy, or when your mind starts to wander about, you lose yourself.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“It is in fact a world of mud and faeces they desire, a world with no Art in it, or anyone like… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
“Wesley's touch lingers on my skin. His music echoes through my head. I remind myself as I scrub my skin that we… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
“Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,'… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
“Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“Gay people represent art. Start allowing gay people to be beaten in the street then you allow art to be beaten in… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
Often times, if you're a bit of a crossover artist, audiences see you as only one thing. — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I've always done live art history lectures and small documentaries in the past in Australia, on Australian art and art galleries, so… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
All artists have to do that at a certain point. This shift that has to happen between the initial moment of creation… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. — Thomas Tredgold Copy Share Image
Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“The whole Epistle is so methodical, that even its very beginning is framed according to the rules of art.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's… — Banksy Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image