Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s not about selling my handmade crafts. Sometimes it’s about giving myself handjobs and calling the product “arts and crafts.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Seducing a girl is no art, but it needs a stroke of good fortune to find one worth seducing.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“now that I know the soft magic of your laugh and how your body moves like art, why would I ever go… — Upile Chisala Copy Share Image
What's nice about Twitter is that you've got that point of contact with your fans that artists have never had before. I… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“According to Wallace, the expectation that art amuses is a 'poisonous lesson for a would-be artist to grow up with,' since it… — Dorothy M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that… — Beverly Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing? — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“All who have achieved excellence in art possess one thing in common; that is, a mind to be one with nature, throughout… — Matsuo Bashō Copy Share Image
Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the… — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
I am a lucky woman to have my loved ones and my experiences to open me up the way it has and… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
If you wait until you're an adult to be exposed to the arts, it could seem elitist, it could seem out of… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart. — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
“Character, that subtle art, disappeared among them during those days and nights, existed only in a book or on a painted wall.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change. — John Kani Copy Share Image
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive, ...” — JJ Abrams Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that all true artistes are androgynous by nature, the yin and yang perfectly balanced. — Aparna Sen Copy Share Image
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
“Choose not to waste your talent or skills. Remember, whatever you don’t use you lose. Whatever gift you have in you. Choose… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves. — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
“The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom?… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“is no great with Thee, there is no small, For Thou art all, and fillest all in all.” — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Tom Hardy is such a good egg. He's a total teddy bear. He loves his dogs and his kids. He's a true… — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
