“Artist get better by sharpening their skills or by acquiring new ones; they get better by learning to work, and by learning… — David Bayles and Ted Orland Copy Share Image
“And that’s the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
I have always had a heavy built and have been into all sorts of physical activities like weight training and martial arts. — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
“written works do not produce fast reactions as pictures and sculptures and music do. it takes no effort to see or hear.… — Anneli Rufus Copy Share Image
“the holy art of “giving for Jesus’ sake” ought to be much more strongly developed among us Christians. Never forget that all… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
“Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In cities across the world, directors of leading arts institutions, galleries and museums know that when it comes to attracting locals to… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think I grew up in an 'acultural' household - no books, no paintings, never went to an art gallery. I say… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish… — Nate Diaz Copy Share Image
I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Who would know that the most beautiful pieces of art would come form the most ugliest situations — Amir Brown Copy Share Image
My two goals are to read everything Edith Wharton has ever written and to have an art collection. — Kellie Martin Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well. — Jaime Zevallos Copy Share Image
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
You try to say, 'I'm not a Christian artist, I'm an artist who's a Christian.' But public perception puts limits on who… — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
